Page 55 - The Origin of Birds and Flight

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By resorting to such a fairy tale-like style, the Discovery Channel seeks
to imply that a transition from reptiles to birds is perfectly reasonable. It
needs to do such a thing because evolutionist claims are devoid of any
scientific evidence. There are actually insuperable differences between
the two living species. As you already saw, claims of avian evolution,
though depicted as scientific fact, are totally lacking in evidence. No
intermediate form to back them up has ever been found.
First of all, the structural differences between dinosaurs and birds is
too great to be bridged by any evolutionist account. Birds’ unique anat-
omy allows them to fly. The fossil record is unable to offer any evidence
that any evolution between these two very different groups ever took
place. Therefore, the theory that birds are descended from dinosaurs is
rejected even by some biologists and paleontologists who subscribe to
the theory of evolution.
For instance, the world-renowned ornithologist Alan Feduccia of
North Carolina University and Larry Martin of The University of Kansas
take the view that birds cannot have evolved from any known dinosaur
group. Feduccia despite being a believer in evolution, points to the evi-
dence fact that there are enormous differences between dinosaurs and
birds and shows that the latter cannot have evolved from the former.
When the anatomies of theropod dinosaurs and birds are examined, it
can be seen that there is no evolutionary relationship between them.
Alan Feduccia sets out the impossibility of theropods evolving into flying
creatures:
It’s biophysically impossible to evolve flight from such large bipeds
with foreshortened forelimbs and heavy, balancing tails. 37
There are deep physiological gulfs between birds and dinosaurs.
First of all, wings—the attribute that makes a bird a bird—represent a
major dilemma for evolutionists. How did the wing’s flawless structure
came into existence through consecutive random mutations, as evolu-
tionists would have us believe? The question goes unanswered. Also,
evolutionists cannot explain how a reptile’s forearms could have turned