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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

is not the Ancestor
is not the Ancestor
of Birds
of Birds
Evolutionists suggest that the 130 million year old dinosaur fossil
Sinovenator changii, discovered in China, is the ancestor of birds. Yet the
oldest known bird, Archaeopteryx, lived 150 million years ago; in other
words it is 20 million years older than the fossil in question. That being
so, it’s impossible for Sinovenator changii to be the ancestor of birds, be-
cause it lived at the same time as birds which have the same features as
modern-day birds, and even 20 million years after them.
Although no feathers were found in Sinovenator changii’s fossil,
some evolutionists assume that it was probably feathered. As a basis for
that assumption, they point to the fact that other dinosaur fossils are
feathered in the same region where this fossil was found.
Despite no feathers being found on the fossil, assuming that it was
actually feathered and concluding from this that dinosaurs are defi-

Sinovenator changii nitely the ancestors of birds is
of course not scientific.
Moreover, even the feathers
on dinosaur fossils previ-
ously found in the Yixian
Region are debatable. Many
scientists agree that the struc-
tures seen in these fossils are
not feathers.
None of the possible
feathered dinosaurs is a cer-
tainty. Even if some feather-
like structures are found in
fossils of these creatures, it
has not been established that
these really were feathers. As

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