Page 87 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

In any case, no half-winged creature could have lived, because if
these imaginary creatures had existed, they would have been at a grave
disadvantage compared to other reptiles, having lost their front legs but
being still unable to fly. In that event, according to evolution's own rules,
they would have been eliminated and become extinct.
In fact, when flying reptiles' wings are examined, they have such a
flawless structure that this could never be accounted for by evolution. Just
as other reptiles have five toes on their front feet, flying reptiles have five
digits on their wings. But the fourth finger is some 20 times longer than
the others, and the wing stretches out under that finger. If terrestrial
reptiles had evolved into
flying reptiles, then this fourth
finger must have grown
gradually step by step, as time
passed. Not just the fourth
finger, but the whole structure
of the wing, must have
developed with chance
mutations, and this whole
process would have had to
bring some advantage to the
creature. Duane T. Gish, one
A Eudimorphodon fossil, one of the
of the foremost critics of the oldest species of flying reptiles. This
theory of evolution on the specimen, found in northern Italy, is
some 220 million years old.
paleontological level, makes
this comment:
The very notion that a land reptile could have gradually been converted into
a flying reptile is absurd. The incipient, part-way evolved structures, rather
than conferring advantages to the intermediate stages, would have been a
great disadvantage. For example, evolutionists suppose that, strange as it
may seem, mutations occurred that affected only the fourth fingers a little bit
at a time. Of course, other random mutations occurring concurrently,
incredible as it may seem, were responsible for the gradual origin of the
wing membrane, flight muscles, tendons, nerves, blood vessels, and other
structures necessary to form the wings. At some stage, the developing flying
reptile would have had about 25 percent wings. This strange creature would

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