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Archaeopteryx Misconception
A reconstruction of Archaeopteryx |
Evolutionists point to the
Archaeopteryx fossil as the only evidence to support
their claim that "birds evolved from dinosaurs".
The latest discoveries, however, prove that this
creature is simply an extinct bird species.
 The
most important intermediate form candidate that
evolutionists refer to is a 150 million-year-old
fossil bird called Archaeopteryx. Evolutionists
claim that this fossil bird was a semi-dinosaur
which could not fly properly.
This evolutionist claim proven
false over and over again, collapsed for good
with an Archaeopteryx fossil unearthed in 1992.
| The bones are
hollow as in modern birds. |
Feathers indicate
that Archaeopteryx is a warm-blooded and flying
creature. |
Some birds today
also have similar "claws" on their wings. |
| The newly discovered
7th specimen of Archaeopteryx preserves a
keeled sternum, which indicates that this
bird had strong flight muscles like modern
flying birds. |
The teeth in
its jaw are no evidence of its alleged relationship
with reptiles. Analyses show that the tooth
structure of Archaeopteryx was very different
from that of modern reptiles. |
 OTHER
TOOTHLESS BEAKS
Confuciusornis, whose fossil is seen
here, lived in the same geological period
as Archaeopteryx. Unlike Archaeopteryx,
however, it had no teeth in its beak.
This discovery revealed that Archaeopteryx
was not "primitive", but was an original
bird species.
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The absence of a "sternum",
that is the chest bone, in this creature, which
is essential for flight muscles, was held up as
the most important evidence that this bird could
not fly properly. The seventh Archaeopteryx fossil
unearthed in 1992 revealed that the chest bone
that evolutionists have long assumed to be missing
actually existed. The presence of this bone proved
that Archaeopteryx was a flying bird. 34
 ASYMMETRIC
FEATHERS
The feathers of all modern flying
birds are asymmetric. This form gives
an aerodynamic function to birds. The
fact that Archaeopteryx's feathers were
also asymmetric invalidates the evolutionary
claim that this bird could not fly.
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In addition, it has been proved
that two other points which evolutionists mention
while presenting Archaeopteryx as an intermediate
form – the claws on its wings and the teeth in
its mouth – do not in any way imply that this
bird is an intermediate form. It has been observed
that two bird species living today, touraco and
hoatzin both have claws on their wings by which
to hold on to branches. Also, there have been
different bird species throughout history that
had teeth. Moreover, according to the measurements
of famous ornithologists, such as Martin, Stewart
and Whetstone, the tooth structure of Archaeopteryx
was completely different from that of reptiles.35
All these findings show that the evolutionary
claims that Archaeopteryx is an intermediate form
have no scientific basis. |
