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The angle that feathers need to lie in, their size and location, and their need to
be arranged symmetrically in both wings cannot be explained in terms of
unconscious, random genetic changes.
The information regarding all feathers’ physical structures lies hidden in
DNA, as does the number of keratin layers and their thickness, the number of
barbules, colors, the distance between feathers, and all of other details. As we
know, the slightest error in the sequencing in a living thing’s genetic data—its
DNA—causes serious morphological and functional defects. To believe that
such sequencing errors, or mutations, originally gave rise to feathers is to
believe in the impossible. The encoded information for the growth of a feather
is very different from that for a scale. Scales developing into feathers, as evo-
lutionists claimed, requires the emergence of brand-new data in the specie’s
DNA.
Every detail in the feather structure, such as its shape and color—the hook
and corresponding barb being of the right thickness, for example—must be
determined by new instructions added to the genetic code. However, the
effects of natural selection and mutation, which the theory of evolution main-
tains are unconscious and random, cannot explain how the genetic information
for such a perfect structure arose in a bird’s DNA.
In addition to the feather’s complex structure, it is also impossible for its
beauty and symmetrical, regular patterns to have emerged via random muta-
tions, as evolutionists would have us believe. Countless laboratory experiments
have definitively demonstrated that mutations cannot add information to an
organism’s DNA. Mutations always lead to defects in a creature’s systems or
morphology (form). To believe that complex structures and stunning beauty like
the peacock’s came into existence through random mutations is as illogical as
believing that a wooden shack could transform into a palace under the effects
of rain, lightning, and wind.

1. N. Bishop, The Secrets of Animal Flight, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 997, p. 9.
2. W. J. Bock, “Explanatory History of the Origin of Feathers,” American Zoologist, Vol. 40, 2000, pp.
478-485.
3. R.T. Peterson, “The Birds,” Time, New York, 1963, p. 33.
4. M. Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Adler and Adler, Bethesda, 1986, p. 202.
5. Ibid.
6. S. F. Tarsitano, A. P. Russell, F. Horne, C. Plummer, K. Millerchip, “On the evolution of feathers from
an aerodynamic and constructional point of viewpoint,” American Zoologist, Vol. 40, September 2000,
pp. 676-686.
7. S. Burgess, “The Beauty of the Peacock Tail and the Problem with the Theory of Sexual Selection,”
The In-Depth Journal of Creation, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2001, pp. 94-102.