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Feduccia, Alan South American continent spread over
the islands, and as a result of geographic
The evolutionist claim seeking to de-
isolation, variations began to predomi-
pict Archaeopteryx as a transitional form nate between the two groups. (See Ge-
is based on the supposition that birds
ographic isolation.)
evolved from dinosaurs. However, Pro-
The speciation among these birds
fessor Alan Feduccia
emerged at exactly this point. It has been
of the University of
seen that when birds belonging to diffe-
North Carolina, one
rent variations are brought back together
of the world’s leading
again in any e way, they lose the instinct
ornithologists—des-
to mate with one another. This stems not
pite being an evolu-
from any biological difference, but from
tionist himself—abso-
completely different behavior patterns.
lutely opposes the
One bird does not regard as a potential
theory that birds are mate another variation it has not pre-
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viously lived together. As a result, these
Well, I've studied bird skulls for 25 years variations failure to interbreed stems
and I don't see any similarities whatsoe- not from their turning into biologically
ver. I just don’t see it. . . . The theropod different species, but because their living
origins of birds, in my opinion, will be
in different geographical regions leaves
the greatest embarrassment
of paleontology of the 20 th
century. 163
Finch (Fringilla coe-
lebs)
The finches that some evo-
lutionists claim to represent
evidence of micro-evolution
are actually an example of
speciation. It is true that initi-
ally, the ancestors of the finc-
hes on the Galapagos Islands
were rather few in number.
However, some finches that
arrived on the islands from the