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HARUN YAHYA

theropod dinosaurs, which they suggest were the ancestors of birds,
birds capable of normal flight were already in existence on the
earth. Archaeopteryx, an ancient species of bird that lived 150 million
years ago, is millions of years older than the theropod species of di-
nosaurs. Despite being an evolutionist, the well-known ornitholo-
gist Dr. Alan Feduccia is known for his recognition of the scientific
dilemma facing the dino-bird theory. Feduccia has stated that
Archaeopteryx represents an "insurmountable problem" from the
point of view of evolution:
There are insurmountable problems with that theory… Beyond
what we have just reported, there is the time problem in that su-
perficially bird-like dinosaurs occurred some 25 million to 80 mil-
lion years after the earliest known bird, which is 150 million years
old. 1
The fact that a creature should have emerged 25 million years
before its ancestor is an inexplicable situation from the Darwinists'
point of view. The existence of the Archaeopteryx fossil alone is suf-
ficient to invalidate the dino-bird theory. Discoveries in the field of
developmental biology, which studies the development of living
things, also point to the invalidity of the dino-bird theory.

Developmental Biology

The latest research by Dr. Alan Feduccia and Julie Nowicki of
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studied the devel-
opment of ostrich eggs. Feduccia compared the hand digits in os-
trich embryos with those of dinosaurs of
the theropod species, and revealed
that birds and theropods had a
different thumb order. The
following discussion of this
research appeared on the
website of the American
Association for the

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