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One of evolutionists' most unbelievable claims is the the-
sis they propose to account for how terrestrial animals sup-
posedly began to fly. According to this tale, one that even
primary school children would find ridiculous, the forearms
of reptiles that hunted flies eventually turned into wings, and
the animals began flying. This thesis, a complete misery of

logic, is just one of the countless examples of the desperate
straits in which Darwinism finds itself. So great is the logical
collapse Darwinists exhibited that they never even consider
the question of "How were the flies the reptiles were chasing
able to fly?"
The fact is that flies have an utterly immaculate flight sys-
tem. While human beings cannot flap their arms even 10 times
a second, an average fly is able to beat its wings 500 times a
second. In addition, both its wings beat simultaneously. The
slightest discrepancy between the movements of the two
wings would cause the fly to lose balance. Yet no such dis-
crepancy ever arises. The biologist Robin Wootton describes
the perfection in the fly's wing:

The better we understand the functioning of insect wings, the
more subtle and beautiful their designs appear . . . Structures
are traditionally designed to deform as little as possible; mech-
anisms are designed to move component parts in predictable
ways. Insect wings combine both in one, using components The countless mosquito fossils discovered
with a wide range of elastic properties, elegantly assembled to to date show that these animals have always
been mosquitoes, that they did not evolve
allow appropriate deformations in response to appropriate
from any other life form, and that they
forces and to make the best possible use of the air. They have
never underwent any intermediate stages.
few if any technological parallels—yet. (Robin J. Wootton, "The
Mechanical Design of Insect Wings," Scientific American, Vol.
263, November 1990, p. 120.)

One of the main features of the fossil record is
that living things remain unchanged over the
course of very lengthy periods of geological time.
There is no difference between this 50-million-
year-old fossil fly and specimens alive today.

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