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14 The Origin of Birds and Flight

Accidental design adjustments, as necessary for general evolution, are
logical disasters. Random mutations from radiation, replication errors,
or other proposed sources, rarely result in viable design adjustments,
never in perfect more advanced designs. 4
Suppose you have determined that your life would be much more
efficient if you had heat receptors in your body, or have felt the need for
some other organ or ability that you think will confer an important
advantage. Can you bring this about in your own body, by yourself?
Could you bring into being a new organ or system that functions in a
coordinated manner with immaculate timing, with all the other organs
in your body, never making an error, that protects you by taking all the
precautions you need and constantly strives to be beneficial to you?
Could you then encode the proper genetic codes in your DNA so as to
transmit this change to later generations?
That would be quite impossible, no matter how much you desired it
or how much effort you expended. How, therefore, could unconscious
molecules manage something that a rational and conscious entity like
yourself cannot? There is thus no scientific basis to support the claim
that unconscious molecules assembled the cell and then, by chance, car-
ried out flawless adjustments in its genetic structure.
As a result, it is impossible for one living species to develop into a
bird, with its own unique features including that of flight, by any so-
called evolutionary mechanism, or for birds to evolve into still other liv-
ing species. The infinite variety among living things is just one indica-
tion of the infinite knowledge and creative artistry of Allah. In order to
deny this, evolutionists hide behind unrealistic explanations.
Over the last 20 years, when the complexity of life has become ever
more clearly understood, an increasing number of scientists have react-
ed against the “chance dogma” supported by the theory of evolution.
When asked about the dilemmas facing the theory of evolution, for
example, Michael Denton, a molecular biologist at the University of
Otago in New Zealand, criticizes the claims made for random mutations:
The most serious objection I have is with the nature of mutation.