Page 86 - The Origin of Birds and Flight

84 The Origin of Birds and Flight

THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF REPTILES’ SCALES TURNING INTO

BIRD FEATHERS
The origin of birds has always represented a major difficulty for
Darwinism. Even today, there is still no unanimity on the subject among
evolutionists. One of the dilemmas facing them in this regard is the ori-
gin of birds’ feathers, which possess a complex structure essential for
flight, and which is present only in birds.
Many evolutionists maintain that over millions of years, dinosaur
scales gradually developed into feathers by means of mutations and

Flight
feathers

Flying bird feathers consist of
barbs emerging from a single stem, Feather
barbules and hooks. The barbules structure
at the edge are literally attached to
one another by the hooks. This
special creation in the feathers,
held together as if by a zipper,
once again disproves claims of
evolution based on chance.

Stem
Hook
Barb Barbules