Page 209 - The Origin of Birds and Flight

s you saw in earlier chapters, it’s impossible for
birds to have evolved from dinosaurs, since no
mechanism can have eliminated the enormous
physiological differences between the two groups.
Despite this, evolutionists still raise the scenario of birds being
evolved from dinosaurs in various ways. They frequently resort to
news reports, using pictures of reconstructions and sensational
headlines regarding these so-called dino-birds, as if they represent-
ed the true facts. These accounts are intended to convince people
feathered dinosaurs once lived on Earth.
This scenario is presented persistently as it were a proven fact.
All objections, criticisms and counter-evidence are totally ignored,
clearly indicating that this is deliberate propaganda intended to
impose dino-bird myths on society. The biased fossil interpreta-
tions we shall examine in the following pages reveal their hollow,
deceptive nature.
The claim that birds evolved from dinosaurs is actually
opposed by a great many paleontologists or anatomists who other-
wise support the theory of evolution. As you have seen, two
renowned ornithologists, Alan Feduccia and Larry Martin, think
this scenario is completely erroneous. This is set out in the textbook
Developmental Biology, taught in U.S. universities:
Not all biologists believe that birds are dinosaurs. . . This group
of scientists emphasize the differences between dinosaurs and
birds, claiming that the differences are too great for the birds to
have evolved from earlier dinosaurs. Alan Feduccia, and Larry
Martin, for instance, contend that birds could not have evolved
from any known group of dinosaurs. They argue against some of
the most important cladistic data and support their claim from
developmental biology and biomechanics. 171
Many evolutionist publications refer to the thesis that birds
evolved from dinosaurs as if it were based on solid evidence and