Page 59 - The Origin of Birds and Flight

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 57

It strains the imagination to visualise so many beautifully apt changes
occurring by chance, even when one considers that 150 million years
elapsed between the emergence of life from the sea and the appearance
of the first birds. For my part, I can imagine that each change might have
occurred by chance during that time. What I find hard to swallow is the
accumulation of different changes integrated into a single functional
pattern. 39
Gordon Taylor is stating why avian evolution is an impossibility; yet
a great many evolutionists still persist in believing in it. The reason for
this lies in their philosophical prejudices. In order to deny Allah’s crea-
tion, evolutionists display a blind devotion to their claims. Despite the
lack of any evidence to support their claims—and even though those
claims have been demolished countless times—still they refuse to accept
the fact of creation.
For anyone pondering over the subject without prejudice, the con-
clusion to which science leads is creation. At the same time, this fact is
revealed in the Qur'an. The Qur'an states that “Among His Signs is the
creation of the heavens and Earth and all the creatures He has spread
about in them …” (Surat ash-Shura, 29) and “And in your creation and
all the creatures, He has spread about there are Signs for people with
certainty.” (Surat al-Jathiyya, 4).
In other verses Allah refers to the variety of life:
Have they not seen how We created for them, by Our own handiwork,
livestock which are under their control? We have made them tame for
them and some they ride and some they eat. And they have other uses
for them, and milk to drink. So will they not be thankful? They have
taken gods besides Allah so that perhaps they may be helped. They
cannot help them, even though they are an army mobilized in their
support. (Surah Ya Sin, 71-75)

AVIAN BONE STRUCTURE CREATED ESPECIALLY FOR FLIGHT
Of the many structural differences between birds and reptiles, from
the point of view of flight, one of the most important is bone structure.