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CHAPTER 2

Flawless Flying

Machines: Birds

ecause they believe that the birds must have somehow evolved,
evolutionists assert that birds are descendants of reptiles. However,
B the progressive model of evolution cannot explain any of the body
mechanisms of birds, which have a completely different structure from land-
dwelling animals. First, the primary feature of birds, i.e. wings, is a great
obstacle for the theory of evolution to explain. One of the Turkish
evolutionists, Engin Korur, makes the following confession in reference to
the impossibility of the evolution of wings:
The common trait of eyes and the wings is that they can only function
if they are fully developed. In other words, a halfway-developed eye
cannot see and a bird with half-formed wings cannot fly. How these
organs came into being is one of those mysteries of nature that has still
to be accounted for. 13

The question of how the flawless structure of wings might have been
formed through a series of consecutive random mutations remains
completely unanswered. The process in which the front leg of a reptile could
transform into a flawless wing seems to be as inexplicable as ever.
Furthermore, the existence of wings is not the only prerequisite for a land
creature to become a bird. Land-dwelling animals totally lack a number of
mechanisms that are used by birds in flying. For example, the bones of birds