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and can not be re peat ed, and for The re sults of the re cent stud ies show
these rea sons, is there fore not a sci - that the hands of the ther o pod di no -
en tif ic fact or the o ry. Neither is it an saurs are de rived from dig its I, II, and
ev i dent sci en tif ic fact, as some cir cles III, where as the wings of birds, al -
though they look alike in terms of
im ag ine or as they seek to por tray
struc ture, are de rived from dig its II,
it. 244 On the con tra ry, when the the o -
III, and IV . . . The sec ond study shows
ry of ev o lu tion is com pared with sci -
that the ther o pod di no saurs did not
en tif ic find ings, a great con tra dic tion
pos sess the cor rect skel e tal struc ture or
emer ges. In terms of the or i gin of
lung struc ture to have evolved in to
life, pop u la tion ge net ics, com par a -
birds. The ev o lu tion of ther o pods in to
tive anat o my, pa le on tol o gy and bi o -
birds would have re quired the in tro -
chem i cal sys tems, the the o ry of ev o - duc tion of a se ri ous hand i cap (a hole in
lu tion is in a state of cri sis, as the fa - their di a phragm), which would have
mous bi o chem ist Michael Denton se vere ly lim it ed their abil i ty to breathe.
puts it. 245 As Dr. Ruben said, such a de bil i tat ing
mu ta tion "seems un like ly to have been
of any se lect ive ad van tage." 246
THEROPOD DINOSAURS
There are oth er prob lems re gard -
The the o ry of ev o lu tion claims ing the "Birds Are Dinosaurs" the o -
that birds evolved from a small, car - ry. In com par i son with
niv o rous rep tile known as the ther o - Archaeopteryx, ther o pods' front legs
pod di no saur. In fact, how e ver, a are very small in re la tion to their
com par i son of birds and rep tiles bod ies. (See Archaeopteryx.) Bearing
shows that these class es are very dif - in mind the body weight of these an -
fer ent from one an oth er and that no i mals, the de vel op ment of any pro to-
ev o lu tion can have tak en place be - wing ap pears im pos si ble. The ma -
tween them. (See The Origin of jor i ty of ther o pod di no saurs have no
Birds.) sem i lu na tic wrist bone (which is
An ex am i na tion of the anat o mies found in birds), and pos sess oth er
and fos sil rec ords of birds and rep - wrist com po nents that are ab sent in
tiles al so shows no ev i dence that ev - Archaeopteryx. In all ther o pods, the
o lu tion ev er hap pened. In an ar ti cle VI nerves leave the skull from the
ti tled "Demise of the ‘Birds Are side, to geth er with var i ous oth er
Dinosaurs' Theory," the American nerves. In birds, how e ver, the same
bi ol o gist Richard L. Deem writes: nerves leave the skull through a

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