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CHAPTER 6

THE IMAGINARY EVOLUTION OF BIRDS AND MAMMALS

ccording to the theory of evolution, life originated and evolved in the sea and then was transported

onto land by amphibians. This evolutionary scenario also suggests that amphibians evolved into rep-
A tiles, creatures living only on land. This scenario is again implausible, due to the enormous structural
differences between these two classes of animals. For instance, the amphibian egg is designed for developing in

water whereas the amniotic egg is designed for developing on land. A "step by step" evolution of an amphibian
is out of the question, because without a perfect and fully-designed egg, it is not possible for a species to sur-
vive. Moreover, as usual, there is no evidence of transitional forms that were supposed to link amphibians with
reptiles. Evolutionist paleontologist and an authority on vertebrate paleontology, Robert L. Carroll has to ac-
cept that "the early reptiles were very different from amphibians and that their ancestors could not be found

yet." 44
Yet the hopelessly doomed scenarios of the evolutionists are not over yet. There still remains the problem
of making these creatures fly! Since evolutionists believe that birds must somehow have been evolved, they as-

sert that they were transformed from reptiles. However, none of the distinct mechanisms of birds, which have
a completely different structure from land-dwelling animals, can be explained by gradual evolution. First of
all, the wings, which are the exceptional traits of birds, are a great impasse for the evolutionists. One of the
Turkish evolutionists, Engin Korur, confesses the impossibility of the evolution of wings:

The common trait of the eyes and the wings is that they can only function if they are fully developed. In other
words, a halfway-developed eye cannot see; a bird with half-formed wings cannot fly. How these organs came
into being has remained one of the mysteries of nature that needs to be enlightened. 45
The question of how the perfect structure of wings came into being as a result of consecutive haphazard
mutations remains completely unanswered. There is no way to explain how the front arms of a reptile could

have changed into perfectly functioning wings as a result of a distortion in its genes (mutation).
Moreover, just having wings is not sufficient for a land organism to fly. Land-dwelling organisms are de-
void of many other structural mechanisms that birds use for flying. For example, the bones of birds are much
lighter than those of land-dwelling organisms. Their lungs function in a very different way. They have a differ-

ent muscular and skeletal system and a very specialised heart-circulatory system. These features are pre-requi-
sites of flying needed at least as much as wings. All these mechanisms had to exist at the same time and
altogether; they could not have formed gradually by being "accumulated". This is why the theory asserting that
land organisms evolved into aerial organisms is completely fallacious.

All of these bring another question to the mind: even if we suppose this impossible story to be true, then
why are the evolutionists unable to find any "half-winged" or "single-winged" fossils to back up their story?

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