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The Evolutionists are Still Struggling with the Same Dilemma: The Origin of Flight

The Irreducible Complexity in Birds' Wings Refutes Gradual Evolution

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All these scientific facts invalidate the dino-bird evolution scenario. When the complex design in the bird wing is considered, it once again emerges that it is impossible to account for flight in terms of random evolution. The most important fact demonstrating this is the irreducible complexity in this perfect design. Accepting the hypothesis of the evolution of flight means accepting that wings were inadequate at certain stages. Yet an inadequate "wing" is inadequate for flight at all. In order for flight to take place, the creature's wings need to be flawless and fully formed. TheTurkish evolutionist biologist Engin Korur makes the following admission on this point:

The common feature of eyes and wings is that they can only perform their functions if they are developed as an entire entity. To put it another way, a creature cannot see with a deficient eye, nor fly with half a wing. How these organs came about remains a still unexplained secret.8

NON-STOP FLIGHTThe swift's long, curved wings enable it to fly continuously at an average speed of about 40 kph (25 mph)SPEED IN BURSTSThe kingfisher's fast but
NON-STOP FLIGHTThe swift's long, curved wings enable it to fly continuously at an average speed of about 40 kph (25 mph)SPEED IN BURSTSThe kingfisher's fast but short flight is achieved on stubby triangular wings. This wing shape helps the bird to take off from the water after a dive.KINGFISHER FLIGHTWhirring wingbeats carry the kingfisher between perches. It can brake in mid-air to dive for fish.SWIFT FLIGHTThe swift alternates fast wingbeats with short glides.
Outer wing feathers are extended during level flight but closed up for divingSPEED RECORD HOLDERThe peregrine falcon is the world's fastest bird. Although its s
Outer wing feathers are extended during level flight but closed up for divingSPEED RECORD HOLDERThe peregrine falcon is the world's fastest bird. Although its speed is often exaggerated, it can probably dive at a breath-taking 280 kph (175 mph) in pursuit of other birds. As it dives, it slashes its victim with its talons, knocking it to the ground with the force of the impact.PEREGRINE FLIGHTThe peregrine falcon divers with its wings partially folded. This method of catchingprey is known as "stooping".Wing tip folds back when diving after prey

Kenneth Dial's thesis that WAIR accounts for the evolution of the wing is invalid in the face of these facts. According to his imaginary scenario, dinosaurs' arms would prove inadequate in several stages of this so-called evolution, and flight could not happen. To believe that a bird developed in stages means accepting that all the complex structures and systems described above—the design of the unidirectional flow of air in the lungs, hollow bones, the hooks and barbs on the feathers, the light but flexible structure, the bird's warm-blooded metabolism, and many other details indicative of a perfect design—also came about in stages. It is of course impossible for any creature in which these organs and systems were in any way lacking to have survived at all.

References

  1. Engin Korur, "The Secret of Eyes and Wings," Bilim ve Teknik (Science and Technology), October 1984, No: 203, p. 25. ↩