Page 171 - The Origin of Birds and Flight

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
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Zdenek Burian re-organized pre-Archaeopteryx step in the evolution of
bird flight which is usually named pro-avis. There is no fossil evidence
of pro-avis at all. 119
Colin Patterson, another evolutionist scientist, also says that these
claims are very far from being scientific:
Is Archaeopteryx the ancestor of all birds? Perhaps yes, perhaps no:
there is no way of answering the question. It is easy enough to make
up stories of how one form gave rise to another, and to find reasons
why the stages should be favoured by natural selection. But such
stories are not a part of science, for there is no way of putting them
to the test. 120
For the reasons, which we shall examine in detail in due course, the
thesis that Archaeopteryx was a primitive bird is false. Yet this fossil is of
indispensable importance to Darwinists, not because it constitutes
evidence for any process of evolution, but because it generates easy
speculation. On every possible occasion, the fossil is brought up as if it
represented significant evidence, despite the facts being proven time and
again. No intermediate forms, the basic claim of the theory of evolution,
have ever been found. The removal of Archaeopteryx, looked on as liter-
ally the only specimen that evolutionists imagined they could deploy,
would deal the theory a severe blow. Therefore, the continued depiction
of Archaeopteryx as evidence is a dogmatic, rather than scientific.