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supply are both highly developed and able to function together in a per-
fectly integrated manner. 50
In short, none of the alleged intermediate stages between the two
types of lung are suited to a creature’s survival. Since any lungs whose
structural anatomy remained incomplete could not function at all, such
a possibility is out of question. No living species has the time to wait for
the changes necessary for such a transition to take place. Unless a bird
possesses one type of lung or the other in full working order, it will die.
This fact is sufficient to show that this plumonary anatomy, unique
to birds, cannot have emerged through chance mechanisms such as nat-
ural selection. The avian lung is just one of the countless proofs that liv-
ing things were created by Allah.
According to Michael Denton, lungs remaining functional through-
out the passage, via minute changes, from the reptile version to the avian
version, with the animals enjoying an advantage at every step is no more
than a work of the imagination. Indeed, according to evolutionist claims,
the transition from the reptile to the bird lung must have begun with a
weak quadruped whose diaphragm was incomplete, and natural selec-
tion should have eliminated such a creature.
In an interview, Denton stated that such a passage cannot have taken
place and criticizes the claims made by Darwinism in terms of the avian
lung:
Well, the basic pattern it fails to explain is the apparent uniqueness and
isolation of major types of organisms. My fundamental problem with
the theory is that there are so many highly complicated organs, sys-
tems and structures, from the nature of the lung of a bird, to the eye of
the rock lobster, for which I cannot conceive of how these things have
come about in terms of a gradual accumulation of random changes.
It strikes me as being a flagrant denial of common sense to swallow
that all these things were built up by accumulative small random
changes. This is simply a nonsensical claim, especially for the great
majority of cases, where nobody can think of any credible explanation of