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actually had nothing to do with feathers part birds and part dinosaurs. The evolu-
at all: tionist paleontologist Chris Sloan who
interpreted the fossils suggests that these
Exactly 1 year ago, paleontologists were
abuzz about photos of a so-called "feat- creatures were unable to fly, but used
hered dinosaur." . . The Sinosauropteryx their wings for balance when running. In
specimen from the Yixian Formation in other words, they need to be regarded as
China made the front page of The New the forerunners of birds and were as yet
York Times, and was viewed by some as incapable of flight.
confirming the dinosaurian origins of There is an enormous inconsistency
birds. But at this year's vertebrate pale-
here, because these fossils are only 120
ontology meeting in Chicago late last
million years old. Yet Archaeopteryx, the
month, the verdict was a bit different:
oldest known bird, is already 150 milli-
The structures are not modern feathers,
on years old. Archaeopteryx had exactly
say the roughly half-dozen Western pale-
the same flying ability as modern-day
ontologists who have seen the specimens.
birds. It possessed the requisite broad
. . . .Paleontologist Larry Martin of Kan-
wings, asymmetric and complex feather
sas University, Lawrence, thinks the
structures are frayed collagenous fibers structure and sternum (breast) bone for
beneath the skin—and so have nothing to flight. Evolutionists have for long at-
do with birds. 162 tempted to portray Archaeopteryx as the
primitive forerunner of birds. Yet the
Following the failure of their specu-
greatest problem they face is that this
lation with regard to Sinosauropteryx,
vertebrate already possessed all bird-like
evolutionists moved their attention to
features and was fully capable of flight.
new fossil discoveries known as
In short, Archaeopteryx proves that
Archæoraptor, Sinornithosaurus and Be-
ancient birds were flying through the air
ipiaosaurus. (See Archaeoraptor). A
150 million years ago. This naturally
dogmatic approach to evolution, a lack
makes it impossible for fossil dinosaurs
of thought and belief in a preconception
that are younger by 30 million years to
lead to such errors and erroneous inter-
be regarded as the primitive forerunners
pretations. The fossils in question estab-
of birds that were as yet incapable of
lish no connection between birds and di-
flight. This shows an evident contradicti-
nosaurs, but rather raise a number of in-
on in evolutionist claims regarding
consistencies and contradictions, some
Archæoraptor, Sinornithosaurus and Be-
of which may be summed up as follows:
ipiaosaurus.
The fossils discovered in China and
known as Archæoraptor, Sinornithosau-
rus and Beipiaosaurus are depicted as

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)