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92 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

Evolutionist John E. Hill and James D. Smith are the authors of

Bats - A Natural History:
The fossil record of bats extends back to the early Eocene.... [A]ll fossil
bats, even the oldest, are clearly fully developed bats and so they shed lit-
tle light on the transition from their terrestrial ancestor. 236

Robert L. Carroll is a vertebrate paleontologist:
... all the Triassic pterosaurs were highly specialized for flight... They pro-
vide little evidence of their specific ancestry and no evidence of earlier
stages in the origin of flight. 237

Exactly 1 year ago, paleontologists were abuzz about photos of a so-called
"feathered dinosaur," which were passed around the halls at the annual
meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. The Sinosauropteryx
specimen from the Yixian Formation in China made the front page of The
New York Times, and was viewed by some as confirming the dinosaurian
origins of birds. But at this year's vertebrate paleontology meeting in
Chicago late last month, the verdict was a bit different: The structures are
not modern feathers, say the roughly half-dozen Western paleontologists
who have seen the specimens... Paleontologist Larry Martin of Kansas
University, Lawrence, thinks the structures are frayed collagenous fibers
beneath the skin-and so have nothing to do with birds. 238

Evolutionists' Confessions Stating the Impossibility of
Reptilian Scales turning into Bird Feathers
Evolutionists maintain that reptile scales gradually turned into bird

feathers by way of mutations and natural selection. However, as evolu-
tionists themselves admit, this is anatomically and physiologically im-
possible, because reptile scales and bird feathers have totally different
structures.
A. H. Brush is Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology at the
University of Connecticut:
Every feature from gene structure and organization, to development,
morphogenesis and tissue organization is different [in feathers and
scales]... Moreover, protein structure of birds feathers are unique among
vertebrates. 239