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MICRORAPTOR GUI AND THE CLAIMS OF

FOUR-WINGED DINOSAURS
The fossil known as Microraptor gui,
discovered by the Chinese paleontologist
Xu Xing in January 2003, was accepted
by evolutionists as the primitive ancestor of
birds, in the same way as a great many other
fossils. It was suggested that this reptile had
four wings and glided from tree to tree, and
was evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Very
soon afterwards, however, scientists announced that
there was no evidence to support this claim.
To set out the invalidity of the Darwinist propa-
ganda regarding the fossil Microraptor gui in articles and
news reports:
1. The fossil in question was estimated to be 130
million years old—20 million years younger than
Archaeopteryx. This shows that the title of “ancestor of
birds” awarded to Microraptor gui by evolutionists is
a fabrication.
2. Anatomically, Microraptor gui resembles dino-
saurs. Its finger sequence agrees with that similarity.
Yet the finger sequence in birds, suggested as having
evolved from Microraptor gui, is significantly different.
This difference is impossible to account for in terms of an ancestral rela-
tionship—another blow to the thesis that Microraptor gui was the ances-
tor of birds.
Considerable evidence shows that Microraptor gui is in fact a dino-
saur. Indeed, the paleontologist who discovered and named the fossil
wrote, in his report published in Nature, that it belonged to a dinosaur.
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The finger sequence in Microraptor gui is 1, 2, 3 as in dinosaurs, and
not 2, 3, 4 as in birds. Also, there are lethal claws on its hind feet—a char-