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One fundamental discrepancy in evolutionists' dino-bird scenario is that the theropod
dinosaurs, depicted as the forerunners of birds, are much younger than
Archaeopteryx, the oldest known bird. To put it another way, when theropod dinosaurs,
birds' alleged ancestors, first appeared, birds were already in existence.
The pictures show a fossil Archaeopteryx and a reconstruction.

This summation shows what a huge distortion cladistics is.

The following point needs to be made clear: the Velociraptor in
the above extract is one of the fossils portrayed as a supposed
intermediate form in the myth of birds evolving from di-
nosaurs. Like the others, however, this is nothing more than bi-

ased evolutionist interpretation. The feathers seen in the
imaginary reconstructions of Velociraptor merely reflect evolu-
tionists' imaginations; the fact is that there is no evidence the
animal had feathers at all. In addition, again as we have seen in

the above quotation, evolutionists manifestly distort the re-
sults from the fossil record according to their own theories.
The only reason for supposing that a species, with a 70-mil-
lion-year-old fossil, actually existed 170 million years earlier—

and establishing an evolutionary family relationship on the
basis of that supposition—is to distort the facts.
Cladistics is a covert confession that the theory of evolution cannot cope with the fossil record and
opens a new dimension. To sum up:

1) Darwin predicted that, once the fossil record was studied in detail, intermediate forms would be dis-
covered to fill in the gaps between all the known species. This is what the theory expected.
2) But 150 years of work in paleontology has produced no intermediate forms, and no traces of these
creatures have been discovered. This is a great defeat for the theory.

3) In addition to the fact that no intermediate forms have been found, the age of those creatures posited
as ancestors of others only on the basis of comparison is also in dispute. A creature that appears more
"primitive" may have appeared in the fossil record later than a creature that seems more "developed."

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