THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE
GOD’S DESIGN OF THE BIRD DISPROVES THE EVOLUTIONIST’S THEORY THAT BIRDS EVOLVED FROM DINOSAURS
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God’s design of the bird disproves the Evolutionist’s Theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Evolutionists base their theory on similarities between birds and dinosaurs. In one day God created birds. Their design and features are so wonderfully detailed and incredibly unique to them. Yet, despite their uniqueness, Evolutionists state that dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds. Birds are equipped with unique features like feathers, hollow bones, and lungs. In addition, Evolutionists continuously attempt to find transitional fossils, in order to attest their ludicrous assumption. The Evolutionist’s belief that dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds has been refuted by God’s design of the bird.
It is now a firm belief among evolutionists that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Evolutionists claim that certain similarities between birds and dinosaurs help prove their theory. However, using these similarities as proof of their Theory is not sound science. Moreover, it has been discovered that there are great design differences between dinosaurs and birds.
Scripture clearly teaches that God created birds (along with the sea, and other air creatures1) on the Fifth Day of Creation:
And God said, let the . . . fowl . . . fly above the earth . . . after their kind . . . And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.2
He made land animals and man on the sixth day3. Since dinosaurs were created as land animals, they have a completely different beginning from birds, and indeed were created after birds. Therefore, the Bible strongly
contradicts the “Dinosaur-Bird Evolution” Theory. God has created the bird with design features unique to it. Some of these design features are, feathers, special lungs and hollow bones.
Birds are perfectly designed for flight4, and their feathers are lightweight, strong, aerodynamically shaped, and have an intricate structure of barbs, barbules and hooks. However, some evolutionists claim that feathers evolved from scales (on dinosaurs), but scales are simply folds in skin. There are no examples of living or fossil scales that even remotely resemble feathers. Feathers also originate in an entirely different way, from follicles within the skin. Moreover, feather proteins5 are biochemically dissimilar from scale proteins6. It is absurd to think any creature would accidentally blunder upon the special function, shape, biochemistry, and anatomical
progressive pathway of feathers by chance, especially when the transitional stages have little to no possible survival advantage.
Birds also have unique lungs to suit their unwavering need for oxygen. Avian lungs have a complicated system of air sacs that even makes use of the bird’s hollow bones. This lung arrangement rapidly feeds the bird’s body tissues with life-supporting oxygen while keeping it light in the air. In addition, air sacs require immovable thigh bones for support. In contrast, dinosaurs had movable thighs, therefore, could not have supported an avian lung system. These incredible lungs could not have evolved from completely dissimilar reptile lungs,78 because a transitional creature with a half-way lung would be unable to survive.
A bird’s bones are virtually hollow. The bones of a bird are so light, and designed so well for flight, that the weight of a bird’s feathers often outweigh its entire skeleton. The change that would have had to take place from dinosaur bones to bird bones is utterly inconceivable. Any change in bone structure, would automatically change the nervous system, the muscular system, the organ structure, and spinal cord configuration, and all of these must be done instantaneously otherwise the creature would be unable to survive. As a consequence, these unique avian bones could not have evolved from dinosaur bones. It is not feasible that the dinosaur slowly changed into the bird over millions of years as Evolutionists assert.
Supposed intermediate fossils, or missing links, have been found. Evolutionists use this ‘evidence’ to help prove their Theory. One missing link, Sinosauropteryx, was the first claimed ‘feathered dinosaur’. However, Sinosauropteryx lacked the unique avian lung. Instead, it had a respiratory system similar to the crocodile, called a ‘bellows lung’. Also, so-called ‘proto-feathers’ found along the neck of Sinosauropteryx, have turned out to be folds in its skin9 10 11. It can be undeniably declared that Sinosauropteryx was not a missing link, but a dinosaur.
Archaeopteryx is one of the most frequently used examples in the Dinosaur-Bird Evolution Theory, and is considered the perfect missing link. However, Archaeopteryx did not possess any ‘intermediate’ features at all: rather it boasted standard avian features such as fully-formed flying feathers12, a large wishbone, the unique avian lung, and fixed thigh bones. All this evidence proves that Archaeopteryx was not a dinosaur-bird intermediate but a typical, flying bird.
Some fossils endorsed as proof, turned out to be frauds, ‘stitched’ together to look like missing links between dinosaurs and birds. One such example, Archaeoraptor, made the front cover of National Geographic in November 1999. It was hailed as proof of feathered dinosaurs and the dinosaur-bird link. It became apparent, that it was a fossilized bird with a dinosaur tail glued on!
God’s amazing design of birds certainly does discredit the Theory of Bird Evolution. In order for non-flying dinosaurs to have evolved into flying birds, as the Evolutionary Theory suggests, almost every structure in the dinosaurian ancestors would need to be changed. There is no living or fossil evidence for this, and there is much against it. Once again, Evolution has proved untrustworthy. It is a theory that is based solely on assumptions with an immense lack of evidence to back it up. The truth is, that on the earth’s fifth day, God created birds with their unique avian features perfectly suited for flight. Dinosaurs did not evolve over millions of years to develop these characteristics. For, not even one transitional fossil has been found. There is simply no conceivable way for the Theory of Bird Evolution to stand when God’s design of the bird is so utterly contradictory to His design of the dinosaur, and considering there is no acceptable ground whatsoever to support it.
Endnotes:
1 Pterodactyls (and other extinct flying reptiles) are not classified as being dinosaurs neither are they birds, but they too would have been created on the fifth day of creation, along with the birds, and also bats
2 Genesis 1:20-23 (King James Version)
3 Genesis 1: 24-28 (King James Version)
4 There are certain species of birds that cannot fly (ostriches, penguins, kiwis etc.) these birds have most likely become flightless over time since the creation. Loss of flight and feather structure are losses of genetic information, so are irrelevant to evolution, which requires an increase in genetic information. Alternatively, God may have originally made them flightless.
5 (φ-keratins)
6 (α-keratins)
7 Bird lungs are very different from reptile lungs. A reptile lung is like a bellows, that is, air is breathed in, and blood takes up the oxygen and releases carbon dioxide. The stale air is then breathed out the same way it came in. Mammal lungs have a different internal structure, but also work like a bellows.
8 Recent research shows that some living reptiles, including iguanas, monitor lizards, and alligators, have a form of unidirectional airflow. However, they don’t need the avian system of air sacs and parabronchi; instead, the airways are shaped and angled to generate jets that produce one-way airflow, another ingenious design by God
9 Gibbons, A., Plucking the feathered dinosaur, Science 278:1229, 1997.
10 Mayr, G., Peters, D.S., Plodowski, G. and Vogel, O., Bristle-like integumentary structures at the tail of the horned dinosaur Psittacosaurus, Naturwissenschaften 89:361–365, 2002.
11 Lingham-Soliar, T., Feduccia, A. and Wang, X., A new Chinese specimen indicates that ‘protofeathers’ in the Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx are degraded collagen fibres, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274:1823–1829, 2007.
12 Including asymmetric vanes and ventral, reinforcing furrows as in modern flying birds
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