"There are only two possibilities as to how life arose; one is spontaneous generation arising to evolution, the other is a supernatural creative act of God, there is no third possibility. Spontaneous generation that life arose from non-living matter was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others. That leaves us with only one possible conclusion, that life arose as a creative act of God. I will not accept that philosophically because I do not want to believe in God, therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation arising to evolution."
(Dr. George Wald, evolutionist, Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University at Harvard, Nobel Prize winner in Biology.)
Well, if only all evolutionists were as honest as Dr. Wald! But since they aren't, many will stick like glue to any shred of evidence that could lend the tiniest bit of weight to their belief system. So, back to Archie (for short!). In addition to fully bird-like feathers (some specimens do not show feathers, but just like wide variations within kinds in many species today, this does not indicate evolution, just amazing versatility in creature DNA as God designed it), Archie had wing claws, a bony tail, was three toed and had teeth, which are the main four supposed links with reptiles.
- but there are birds still living that have clawed wings including Ostriches, Touracos and Hoatzins (below)
- there are also birds today that have bony tails, such as Penguins (as seen from the skeleton below)
- although most living birds today have four toes, not all do. For example, Emus, Button Quails (below) and Kori Bustards are all three toed.
- no bird living today has enameled teeth. But that does not mean because some extinct birds do, that they evolved from reptiles. Reptiles usually have teeth, but not all do (which does not make the latter non-reptiles). The converse is apparently true of birds. And, of course, there are birds today that have "teeth" which comprise of either beak or bone serrations, such as the common goose (below).
Because Archie had feathered wings, we know it was warm-blooded, not cold-blooded like reptiles so no connection is indicated there. None of the "Archie" fossils discovered after more than a century of digs show any evidence whatsoever of body scales, so to classify it as a transitional form is truly fanciful. BBC News online ran an article in 2004 which reported that Dr Angela Miller of the London Natural History Museum had concluded from extensive research of Archie's brain, using a method called "commuted tomography scanning" that it was found to have "all the structures that allowed birds to fly" and that the brain, which they expected to show transitional reptilian features was instead "completely bird-like" * The obvious conclusive would be that Archie was a bird then. As has been pointed out :
"Paleontologists have tried
to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur ....but it’s not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of
'paleobabble' is going to change that."
(Allan Feduccia, Professor of biology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Archaeopteryx: Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms", Science, Vol. 259, 5 February 1993, p. 764)
If Archie had evolved from reptiles, why have no earlier versions of Archie been found showing limbs turning into wings or scales into feathers, the real tests of evolution? But no such examples of Archie have been found. Nevertheless, evolutionists continue to insist (as of July 2014), as they have done for decades now that Archie is a transitional form, despite the fact that we now know that at least some varieties of the bird were one hundred per cent feathered, including on it's legs, as one of the more recently found specimens (below) has shown. **
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3535272.stm
** http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28129078
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