Why birds have NOT evolved from dinosaurs.
Opinion
Birds have not evolved from dinosaurs — even feathered dinosaurs!
Research confirms what creationists have been saying all along
By Jodi Klum : 25 September 2009
Evolutionists may think I'm weird, but I've never believed that my pet canary has descended from something like a Tyrannosaurus rex or an Allosaurus.
My belief is based not only on the
assumption that T-rex would have had to buy 6000 boxes of
carrion-flavored birdseed each week, but think of the tons of
newspaper you would need to line the bottom of a cage for a
T-rex.
Publicity about an article in the journal Nature this week discussed Chinese dinosaurs being found with feathers. And with the imagination that only evolutionists can display, some claimed that dinosaurs with feathers are proof that birds evolved from dinosaurs. (A staggering leap of logic.)
But even before this feathered dinosaur paper was published in Nature, researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) announced in June that we can safely assume that birds did not descend from dinosaurs — after they extensively studied how Tweetie Bird and Polly Parrot move and breathe.
To encapsulate their findings: The two creatures' leg
bones and lungs are so different that birds couldn't have evolved
from dinosaurs.
Science Daily reported that the OSU experts noted that scientists have known for decades that the femur, or thigh bone, in birds is largely fixed and makes birds into “knee runners,” unlike virtually all other land animals. But Team OSU also found that this bone stops a bird's air-sac lung from collapsing when the bird inhales.
Every other animal that has walked on land, e! Science News reported, has a moveable thigh bone that is involved in its motion — and this includes humans, elephants, dogs, lizards, and dinosaurs.
“One of the primary reasons many scientists kept pointing to birds as having descended from dinosaurs was similarities in their lungs,” Professor John Ruben from OSU said. “However, theropod dinosaurs had a moving femur and therefore could not have had a lung that worked like that in birds. Their abdominal air sac, if they had one, would have collapsed. That undercuts a critical piece of supporting evidence for the dinosaur-bird link. A velociraptor did not just sprout feathers at some point and fly off into the sunset,” Professor Ruben said.
If some dinosaurs had feathers, so what? It's comparable to animals with scales — goldfish have scales, and komodo dragons have scales, and rattlesnakes have scales, and butterflies have scales. But they didn't all come from some kind of gold-rattling-butter-dragon common ancestor. Likewise, feathers on dinosaurs and birds simply means there were dinosaurs with feathers and birds with feathers, not that one evolved from the other.
The OSU team should be commended for busting an evolutionary myth. It takes courage to tell your fellow evolutionists they are holding on to a theory with no substance.
But I must point out that the OSU researchers are not themselves ready to abandon the whole theory of evolution. As often happens, they said their findings indicate that it is possible that dinosaurs and birds once shared a “common ancestor.”
Ah, that old common ancestor story again. That too is starting to get a bit long in the tooth, because no line of significant common ancestors has ever been discovered.
So I now admit that I still don't mind being the odd one out at evolutionist parties, because I still have no doubt that one day some evolutionist scientists will realize there are serious problems with the common ancestor theory. As unlikely as this may seem, I believe it will happen.
And remember you read it here first.
See also the comment about feathered dinosaurs from Creation Safaris: Ho-Hum, Another Feathered Dinosaur.
Sources:
Scientific Blogging:
Theropod Dinosaurs Evolved Into Birds? Not Likely, Says
Study
e! Science News:
Discovery raises new doubts about dinosaur-bird links
Mail on Sunday:
Why birds are NOT descended from dinosaurs
Science Daily: Discovery
Raises New Doubts About Dinosaur-bird Links
BBC News: Dinosaurs
had 'earliest feathers'
See also: Birds can fly, why can't
I?
Why there is no common ancestor for
humans and apes
The evolution of laughter. Ha ha ha
Photo of feathered Deinonychus by Aaron Gustafson is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License.
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