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produces the feather inside of itself from a growth matrix at the very
bottom.

The reptilian scale has absolutely nothing to do with follicles. All of the
scales can shed as a sheet because they’re nothing but folds in the epi-
dermis, like fabric folded over on itself, whereas feathers would have
to come out of their own follicle. So, if evolutionists really wanted to
make a case, they could argue that feathers evolved from hair, or vice
versa.
Now, of course, that wouldn’t fit the evolutionary belief that mammals
and birds evolved independently from reptiles. 62
No matter how they may combine, it is impossible for unconscious
cells to know how to adopt an order to enable a bird to fly. No one with
common sense could ever accept that chance mechanisms—natural
selection and mutation—could design the feather’s structure, so ideally
suited to flight. With their organs and systems created for them by our
Almighty Lord, living things possess various perfections, reflecting
proof of our Lord's infinite reason and knowledge.
In one verse Allah reveals:
What is in the heavens and in the Earth belongs to Allah. Allah
encompasses all things. (Surat an-Nisa’, 126)

There is not a single trace of the intermediate forms that

evolutionists claim should frequently be encountered:
In suggesting that feathers evolved from scales, evolutionists can-
not point to any intermediate form in the fossil record that indicates
feathers’ stage-by-stage development. Yet there are fundamental mor-
phological differences between the two, meaning there should be a great
many such intermediate forms. Yet in the fossil record, reptile scales,
bird feathers, skin and mammal fur all appear perfectly formed. Not a
single fossil exists pointing to a transition to the avian feather, as is
admitted in Nature magazine, an evolutionist publication: