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re sult of con sec u tive ran dom mu ta - mu ta tions. This clear ly dem on -
tions is one that ev o lu tion ists can not strates that the claims of ev o lu tion -
an swer. Evolution is un a ble to ex - ists are sim ply fic tion al. In ad di tion,
plain how a rep tile's front legs could no fos sil record con firms this un sci -
have turned in to wings as the re sult en tif ic tale. There are thou sands of
of some mu ta tion aris ing in its per fect ly formed bird fos sils, but not
genes. No new or gan can form as the a sin gle ex am ple of bird-like crea -
re sult of mu ta tions, and any rep tile tures, with half-de vel oped wings,
would be nat u ral ly dis ad van taged if has ev er been found.
its fore legs lost func tion al i ty. (See
The Origin of Wings and The Origin
of Flight.)
In ad di tion, sim ply pos sess ing TRANSITION FROM SEA TO
wings is not enough to turn a ter res - LAND THESIS, THE
tri al an i mal in to a bird. Land dwell - —See Transition from Water to
ers lack many of the struc tur al mech - Land Dilemma, The.
a nisms that birds use to fly. For ex -
am ple, avi an bones are much light er
than those of ter res tri al crea tures. TRANSITION FROM WATER
Their lungs have a whol ly dif fer ent TO LAND DILEMMA, THE
struc ture and func tion. Birds have
According to the the o ry of ev o lu -
dif fer ent mus cu lar and skel e tal
tion, life be gan in the seas, and the
struc tures, as well as far more spe -
first ad vanced ver te brate an i mals
cial ized heart and cir cu la to ry sys -
were fish. Again ac cord ing to the
tems—mech a nisms that can not form
the o ry, these fish be gan to move to -
grad u al ly, be ing add ed to one an -
ward dry land and in some way,
oth er.
came to use feet in stead of fins and
Evolutionists who main tain that
lungs in stead of gills!
di no saurs de vel oped wings while
Many books on ev o lu tion nev er
chas ing flies can not ex plain how
con sid er the how of this ma jor claim,
those flies de vel oped wings in the
whose base less ness is glossed over
first place. Yet ac cord ing to their
in most sci en tif ic text books in some
own claims, the flies' wings in their
sum ma ry like ". . . and liv ing things
most com plex forms must have
moved from the wa ter to dry land."
come in to be ing through var i ous
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