Page 185 - Atlas of Creation Volume 2

Harun Yahya

Powerful wing muscles must be securely attached
to the bird's breastbone, and have a structure
suitable for lifting the bird into the air and estab-
lishing balance and movement in all directions
when aloft. It is also essential that bird's wing
and tail feathers be light, flexible and in propor-
tion to one another—that they should have a per-
fect aerodynamic framework making flight
possible.
At this point, the theory of evolution faces a
major dilemma: The question of how this wing's
flawless structure could have emerged as the re-
sult of a succession of random mutations goes
unanswered. "Evolution" can never explain how a
reptile's forelegs could have developed into a
flawless wing as the result of impairments in its
genes—that is, mutations.
As the quotation cited on the preceding page states, flight is impossible with just a half wing. Therefore, even if we assume
that a mutation of some kind did cause some kind of changes in a reptile's forelegs, it is still irrational to expect that a
wing could emerge by chance, as a result of other mutations being added on. Any mutation in the front legs would not
endow the animal with wings, but would deprive it of the use of its forelegs. This would leave the creature physically dis-
advantaged (crippled, in other words) compared to other members of its species.
According to biophysical research, mutations take place only very rarely. Therefore, it is impossible to expect such hand-
icapped creatures to wait for millions of years for their half-formed, functionless wings to be completed by small muta-
tions.

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