FIRST BIRD COULDN'T GET OFF THE GROUND

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August 6, 1996 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - Evolutionists tell us that the first bird, called Archaeopteryx, appeared about 145 million years ago. He had a serious problem, though. He couldn't fly. They theorize that he "probably flew poorly, running desperately to get off the ground and crash-landing at the end of its flights" (Associated Press, "Spanish Fossil Shows that Birds Flew Early," July 31, 1996).

That's O.K., though, they say, because within the next 30 million years this poor wanna-be bird with the sore head from his constant crash landings had perfected his flying skills. They know this, they say, because a recently discovered bird fossil in Spain reveals a fully-developed flying bird.

"A remarkably preserved fossil shows that birds beat aeronautical engineers to an ingenious design by more than 100 million years, an innovation used today to keep jumbo jets from crashing when they land. The fossil, unearthed in central Spain, sports a tuft of feathers known as an alula, or bastard wing, that helped the bird stay aloft at slow speeds, which is crucial for smooth landings and takeoffs. The alula and the rest of the bird's anatomy indicate that birds could fly about as well 115 million years ago as their descendants do today. In less than 30 million years the wing and the structure of the shoulder and the structure of the feathers got completely modified into the modern design®" (Ibid.).

We are told, then, that it only took 30 million years, give or take a few million, for that wanna-be bird to become an full-fledged flying creature with all of its amazingly complex features. Sounds reasonable, perhaps, to think that anything could happen given enough time, but there is a serious problem here. That little wanna-be bird didn®t have 30 million years. There had to have been a specific time and place in which that creature actually soared off into the sky and landed in the tree and flew off again and landed on the ground and flew off again and did all of the things a bird must do to survive and did them so effectively that he didn't crash and kill himself. Suppose the wanna-be bird somehow grew some tiny little bones and the proper wing structure and grew some feathers in the right places and somehow found a way to get his takeoff act together so that he could soar around a bit. What then? All of that would have been an amazing feat, but he would still have had a long way to go. For example, he has to learn to sit in a tree properly without falling down to the ground. One fall, and that wanna-bird is history, and we have to wait for the next time some non-bird creature decides he wants to become a bird, so the agonizing process can begin anew. Let's say finally, by some strange, unknown process, some non-bird creature succeeds in becoming a bird. He can't reproduce himself unless there happened to be, at the very same point in history, give or take a few days or weeks, an exact duplicate of himself of the opposite sex. Not only would that amazing creature have had to evolve flying abilities, he would have had to evolve the incredibly complex procreative abilities by which he passed his flying abilities on to his offspring. And the same process would have had to have worked to produce a perfect male and female in the same bird lifetime.

Some evolutionists have written to me and have mocked me for believing the Bible. They admit that teams of brilliant aeronautical engineers were required to produce a jumbo jet, yet they tell me that a bird, which is far more complex and which is living and has the ability to perfectly reproduce itself, somehow evolved itself. Friends, evolution is stranger than fiction.

David Cloud dcloud@wayoflife.org http://www.wayoflife.org/
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