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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

Evolutionists’ claim regarding the way in which bird feathers
evolved produced mutually contradictory theories. 78 Old textbooks on
the subject of evolution refer to imaginary transitional-form bird feath-
ers and suggest that they would soon be found in the fossil record. Yet
none of these expected transitional forms have been unearthed so far.
Nonetheless, evolutionists still continue to claim that bird feathers
evolved from reptiles’ scales. According to these claims, the scales
gradually grew longer, grew fronds and slowly assumed a form capa-
ble of bearing the bird in such a way as to enable flight. 79 However, this
is no more than imaginative speculation, on and devoid of any scien-
tific proof.
Actually, since there are so many major differences between bird
feathers and reptile scales, there ought to be a great many transitional
forms between them. Yet no such fossils appear in the fossil record. 80

Bird Feathers in Amber
Bird Feathers in Amber
One of the oldest known bird feathers was found in amber dating
back to the Cretaceous Period (144 to 165 million years ago, at the end
of the Mesozoic Period). The feather stem and fibers were perfectly pre-

There are many fos-
sils belonging to
bird species in the
fossil record.