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structed its skull’s three-dimensional structure using computer tomogra-
phy and the inner brain via computer. “We were fully expecting to find
a dinosaur-like brain,” she stated. “Instead, it was completely bird-like.”
Her study revealed that Archaeopteryx’s brain structure was very close to
that of modern flying birds. Its inner ear had well-developed canals used
for balance, and larger optic lobes for vision. Both structures are utterly
essential for efficient flight. Dr. Milner added: “The brain scan basically
showed that the Archaeopteryx had all of the structures that allow birds
to fly.” 146

Incompatible timing
The most important evidence that Archaeopteryx cannot be a link
between dinosaurs and birds is that theropod dinosaur fossils belong to a
far later period than Archaeopteryx. The fossil dinosaurs claimed to be the
ancestors of birds actually lived in the Cretaceous Period, some 75
million years after Archaeopteryx, showing that any such transition is
purely imaginary.
This incompatible timing deals a lethal blow to evolutionist claims.
In his book Icons of Evolution, the American biologist Jonathan Wells
emphasizes that Archaeopteryx has literally become an emblem of evolu-
tion, even though all evidence clearly shows that the creature could not
have been birds’ primitive ancestor. According to Wells, one indication
of this is that the theropod dinosaurs, depicted as the ancestors of
Archaeopteryx, actually appear later in the fossil record. 147
Richard Hinchliffe of the University of Wales Institute of Biological
Sciences touches on this subject in an article in Science magazine:
The most theropod dinosaurs and in particular, the birdlike dromaeo-
saurs are all very much later in the fossil record than Archæopteryx. 148
Another important proof that Archaeopteryx cannot be an intermedi-
ate form is the finding of fossilized bird fossils that lived close to it in
time. All this shows that Archaeopteryx is not an intermediate form, but
of a classification that can be termed toothed birds—and it is totally