(Hurricane storms) Do Any Fossils Prove That Birds Evolved From Dinosaurs?
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Never has an intermediate fossil of a reptile evolving into a bird been found. Thousands of fossilized reptiles and birds are documented, yet not a single transitional fossil has been discovered that proves one species morphed into the other creature.
The overall fossil record is an enemy to Darwinism.
All higher kinds of plants and animals appear abruptly in the fossil record with no transitional types linking one group to another. The amount of transitional forms involved in the evolutionary transformation from reptiles to birds, over millions of years, should add up to an incredible number.
Although the only fossil evidence presented has not held up to even scant scientific scrutiny, it still has misled billions of people into believing in Darwinian-style evolution.
After one embarrassing candidate that was passed off as a reptile-to-bird missing link was proven to be a fraud put together by a cash-poor farmer in China, “The ‘Missing Link’ That Wasn’t” by Tim Friend appeared in USA TODAY, 2-3-2000.
In the article, Friend wrote:
“…this ‘true missing link between dinosaurs and birds’sprouted its…tail not 120 million years ago but only shortly before being smuggled out of China; has children believing in feathered dinosaurs that never existed, prominent scientists calling each other names and two respected science publications under assault.”
Unfortunately, the fraudulent claims hit the newsstands about once a year. After being used to mislead millions of people they then quietly disappear.
The primary candidate presented by Darwinists as the missing link between reptile and bird is Archaeopteryx.
There is no doubt that Archaeopteryx was an odd bird but there is also no honest doubt that it was 100% bird. It had well-developed feathers for flight, and feathers are very complex structures.
Researchers now know for a fact that reptile DNA does not contain the information to form feathers. The dagger through the heart of Darwinism here is that real science knows of no way for nature to add appreciable amounts of new and beneficial genetic information to an existing gene pool, much less the millions of pieces of data required to change a reptile into a flying bird.
Another crushing blow to the claim that Archaeopteryx was a missing link between reptiles and birds is that scientists have found several fossils of completely modern birds below the strata layers which contained Archaeopteryx.
“…scientists found bird bones farther down the geologic column than Archaeopteryx.” (Nature 322; 8-21-1986; Science 253; 7-5-1991.)
Since Darwinists believe those layers of rock formed slowly and that the fossils found in those strata represent our evolutionary paths, finding modern birds in layers below those that contain Archaeopteryx should have removed him from consideration as any sort of transitional kind.
The late paleontologist, Dr. Colin Patterson of the British Museum of Natural History, wrote a book titled Evolution. In reply to why he had not included any pictures of transitional forms in his publication, Dr. Patterson wrote:
“I fully agree with your comments about the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. I will lay it on the line, there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.” (C. Patterson, from a letter to Luther Sunderland, April 10, 1979, as published in Darwin’s Enigma (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 4th ed. 1988, page 89.)
Russ Miller is author of The GENESIS Report Series. Register at http://www.new-earth-thought.com to receive FREE his 50 Facts vs. Darwinism e-mail series.
How Do Telescopes Help Scientists?
By Koz Huseyin
Astronomy is one of the oldest of sciences. Since the dawn of time, men and woman have looked up at the heavens for answers. So, how does a telescope help scientists today? In this article, we will look at how does telescopes help scientists.
Science is made up of many legs. For example, we have biology, which deals with life, while engineering is designed to look into the mechanics of things. And we have astronomy, telescopes, and astrophysicists, all in a great work of taking humanity forward.
Now, we need to look at the question how does telescopes help scientists and science? The real answer we seek is how telescopes and astronomy helps humanity, because we have seen that astronomy is a science, and telescopes are scientific instruments.
So, how does telescopes help scientists, and ultimately humanity? Since the dawn of time, one of the first things that man must have done was to look up at the heavens. For centuries people have always wanted to know what the future holds. Here astronomy has been the basis of astrology. Though, some people may disagree, with this point. In either case, you likely have heard of astrology, and likely even know your own star sign!
On a practical note, telescopes have helped scientists in many ways. For example, telescopes are helping with monitoring the meteors and asteroids, which potentially could pose a threat to Earth. Here is a very practical application, because advanced knowledge may allow us to do something!
Another way is with the Sun. At times our Sun emits Solar flares, and these flares are so powerful, that they can cause problems on Earth. It has happened where the Solar flares have cause brownouts in some areas.
Some scientists have said that some asteroids and meteors may contain precious items, such as gold, diamonds, etc. These could be very valuable for humanity, and our progress forward. The telescopes help scientists find this information out, however, not with normal telescopes.
A telescope is used to see objects far away, but we often think of telescopes as scientific instruments, we look through and get an image, through some optics. As an example, the Hubble Space Telescope, though it is a telescope, it has no optical parts, people can look through. Instead images are taken and transmitted back for viewing.
A more practical way where people are benefiting from astronomy, and telescopes, is with the knowledge of how to put a satellite into space. This has made a big impact, and you almost likely have a cell phone, which utilizes satellites.
Another is with GPS technology, which allows you to know where you are. And now, we have technology, such as a Tom-Tom, which allows you to drive without the need of looking at a map in a book!
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What About Lucy? Is She The Missing Link?
By Russ Miller
Lucy is another icon of purported evolution which Darwinists are reluctant to give up, even in the face of indisputable evidence that proves Lucy was nothing more than an ape conjured up to fool people into believing that Lucy was changing into a human.
Anthropologists proved in 1987 that Lucy was just an ape. Yet Lucy is still claimed as a missing link in textbooks around the world.
Lucy is the name given to the much-promoted fossilized skeleton that was discovered during 1974 in Ethiopia by anthropologist Donald Johanson. Lucy has served as the poster child for Darwinism ever since.
It was claimed that Lucy walked upright, just like a human walks upright. Darwinists also claimed that they knew it was a missing link because the knee was “slightly bigger” than a normal ape’s knee (proving that it was evolving into a human) and that its femur had to angle to the knee, just as a human femur angles to the knee.
However, what do the actual facts reveal?
Well, according to another one of the world’s best-known anthropologists, Richard Leakey, son of Louis Leakey, Lucy’s skull was so incomplete that most of it is “imagination made of plaster of Paris.” (The Weekend Australian, May 7-8, 1983, Magazine section, page 3.) Leakey stated that no firm conclusion could be drawn as to what species Lucy belonged to.
Scientifically speaking, Lucy is a member of a family of apes known as australopithecines, specifically Australopithecus Afarensis. Pithecus means ape, and as far back as 1987 scientists knew that Lucy was just an ape, and not a missing link between ape and man.
In 1987 Dr. Charles Oxnard, Professor of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia, wrote that although australopithecines were unique,
“Anatomists have concluded these creatures are not a link between ape and man, and did not walk upright in the human manner.” (Fossils, Teeth and Sex a New Perspectives on Human Evolution, Charles Oxnard, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1987, page 227.)
Other skeleton finds of Australopithecus Afarensis have shown that they had curved toes and fingers for gripping tree limbs.
It is well documented that MANY humans have either slightly larger or slightly smaller than average-sized knees, and most tree-dwelling apes have angled femurs.
The facts prove that none of the australopithecines are a transitional link between apes and humans. Lucy and the other australopithecines reveal nothing about supposed human evolution, yet still today, Lucy adorns high school and college textbooks, usually depicted walking upright, just like a human.
While failing to hold any proof for Darwinian change, Lucy does reveal the desperation of the Darwinian faithful, and how easy it is to be fooled by misleading textbook information.
Russ Miller is author of The GENESIS Report Series. Register at http://www.new-earth-thought.com to receive FREE his 50 Facts vs. Darwinism e-mail series.
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