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structure, and no land reptile has any forelimb that might be considered
its earlier version. No semi-winged reptile has yet been encountered in
the fossil record.
Indeed, as in the case with birds, it is impossible for any
such creatures to have existed. By the time they lost the use of
their front legs, they would have still been unable to fly and
thus, have been disadvantaged in their competition with other
reptiles. In the survival of the fittest, they could have not sur-
vived! Their example alone is enough to show the inconsisten-
cies in the theory of evolution.
Examination of the flying reptile wing structure reveals
that it is too perfect to be explained in terms of evolution.
There are five fingers on the wings of flying reptiles, just as
there are five on other reptiles’ forelimbs. However, the
fourth digit is on average 10 to 15 times longer than the
other four, and forms the
outer “rib” of the
leathery wing. Had
any terrestrial reptile
evolved into a flying
one, then this fourth digit
would have had to lengthen
slowly, over generations. Not only that fourth finger but the entire wing
structure would have to have developed through random mutations,
which would have had to endow the creature with advantages at every
step along the way.
Yet there is not the slightest evidence that such a process ever took
place. Such claims therefore go no further than a series of assumptions.
Duane T. Gish, an eminent critic of the theory of evolution on the pale-
ontological level, comments:
The very notion that a land reptile could have gradually been con-
verted into a flying reptile is absurd. The incipient, part-way evolved
structures, rather than conferring advantages to the intermediate