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prove Darwin’s claims. However, scientific understanding attained in
the 20th century showed that living things could not be explained in
terms of coincidence. It was concluded that the flawless structures in liv-
ing things—a bird’s wing, for instance—had to have arisen without any
transitional stages.
This is just one example showing that Darwin’s worries were justi-
fied.
For a bird to be able to fly, its wings must be strongly attached to the
bird’s breast protrusion. The wings must also have a structure able to lift
the bird into the air, maintain balance and change direction. It is also es-
sential that the feathers be light, flexible and in proportion to one anoth-
er functioning in a perfect aerodynamic order that permits flight. But
here evolutionists find themselves in a grave predicament: They cannot
explain how a reptile’s forearms could have turned into flawless wings
through defects (mutations) arising in its DNA. To assume that flight
evolved means that at certain stages, the wing was insufficient—and
thus, impractical. Yet flying with insufficient wings is out of the ques-
tion. In order for an animal to fly, its wings and the anatomy supporting
those wings must be perfectly and fully formed.
Engin Korur, a Turkish evolutionist biologist, admits as much:
The common feature of eyes and wings is that they can fulfill their
functions only if they are fully developed. To put it another way, one
cannot see with a deficient eye, nor fly with half a wing. How these or-
gans formed is one of the still unsolved mysteries of nature. 90
As the above extract makes clear, even if we assume that some mu-
tation did bring about a change in a reptile’s forearms, it is still irrational
to expect that new mutations might be added to this and that a wing
could emerge by chance. Any mutation in the forearms will not endow the
creature with functioning wings, but will deprive it of functioning fore-
arms. This will leave the deformed creature disadvantaged in comparison
with other members of its species. According to the theory of evolution,
natural selection will then eliminate that handicapped individual.