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lution's alleged scientific character has tebrate Paleontology Institute in China,
been used to justify all kinds of ungodly discovered a new fossil bird they named
systems and practices. The most success- Confuciusornis. This winged vertebra-
ful of these, thus far, seems to be commu- te—the same age as Archaeopteryx, ap-
nism, and its adherents all over the world
proximately 140 million years old and
have been deluded into thinking that com-
long considered to be the earliest ances-
munism must be true because it is based
tor of all birds and regarded as semi-rep-
on the science of evolution. 88
tilian. Yet Confuciusornis bore a very
Communism’s objective was to apply close similarity to birds living today. It
the theory of evolution, which Darwin had no teeth, and its beak and feathers
had applied to biology, to human societi- have exactly the same characteristics as
es, advocating that for human beings, li- those of birds alive today. This bird’s
ke wild animals, are in an inevitable state skeletal structure is identical to that of
of conflict and war. today’s birds, but as with Archaeopteryx,
its wings had claws.
Also apparent was a structure known
Confuciusornis
as the pygostyle, which supports the tail
In 1995, Lianhai Hou and Zhonghe feathers. Naturally, its presence undermi-
Zhou, two paleontologists from the Ver- ned the evolutionist thesis that Archa-
eopteryx was the primitive ancestor of
all birds. 89
Confuciusornis, so similar to mo-
dern-day birds, has conclusively disqu-
alified Archaeopteryx, which evolutio-
nists for decades pointed to as the prime
evidence for their scenario of evolution.

Conjugation

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between themselves. In conjugation, two
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