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Harun Yahya
Even before the airplane had been discovered, the flawless design
employed by birds in order to fly influenced a great many inventors. As
is recorded in early silent movies, in the 19th century some individuals ac-
tually tied homemade wings onto their arms and hurled themselves into
space, trying to imitate the movements of birds. Predictably, it did not
take them long to realize that wings alone were not enough to permit
them to fly.
Since then, mankind has made considerable progress in terms of sci-
entific techniques, and research and development. Yet some are still mak-
ing claims at least as hollow and irrational as those early inventors. In
their view, reptiles turned into birds gradually, stage by stage. This imag-
inary mechanism of gradual evolution has no foundation to support it.
Birds possess a totally different structure from land-dwelling creatures.
Their bone and muscle structure, feathers, aerodynamic wings and me-
tabolisms bear not the slightest similarity to those of reptiles, 63 and the al-
leged gradual evolution model cannot account for even one of their bod-
ily mechanisms.
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