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HARUN YAHYA

trimmed feathers were unable to climb as well as birds whose feath-
ers had not been trimmed.
Dial, an evolutionist, maintains that the origin of birds goes
back to dinosaurs of the theropod subgroup. He favors the idea that
dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds and tries to place his observa-
tions of the partridge uphill sprint somewhere into the illusory
dino-bird evolution. According to the scenario he came up with, di-
nosaurs trying to escape from predators flapped their forearms
when running on inclines in order to gain speed, and these forearms
thus gradually turned into wings. This scenario is totally devoid of
any scientific foundation, although he sought to use it as evidence
for the imaginary transition from dinosaur to bird.
It is clear that Dial's claim rests on nothing more than imagina-
tion. Showing that he was able to reduce the aerodynamic proper-
ties of birds' feathers by shortening them brings with it absolutely
no scientific explanation of the way that dinosaurs allegedly came
to be able to fly. This is nothing but trickery of the kind put forward
by many other evolutionists seeking to instill the imaginary dino-
bird model in people's minds.
The fact that such a claim was made by a scientist and published
in a scientific journal might deceive some people into thinking that
such stories possess some kind of scientific basis. The fact is, how-
ever, that scientific research actually disproves the dino-bird theory,

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