Saturday, August 17, 2013

Ever wonder how a hawk with a huge wing span can fly through the forest without hitting the trees?

Via Cousin Bill

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  1. Yep, all of those specialized cells and tissues and organs and systems came together over billions of years trying out systems that work and getting rid of systems that don't and basically built itself, bird brain and all, just by random mutations! Heck, maybe this particular bird had a raptor like cousin of some dinosaur MILLLIONSSS of years ago seeing how similar their anatomies are. Maybe they evolved as birds, changed into dinosaurs for a while and then evolved back into birds again for lack of anything better to do.

    I know I'd rather be a bird than a dinosaur but, who knows? Maybe my atoms WERE a bird or dinosaur in the distant past and maybe I'll be one again! I have a question for anyone who believes in the evolution theory. When that land dwelling animal, whatever it was, had that first mutation of wings, perhaps just some tiny growth from both sides of it's body. How are those tiny growths supposed to make that animal more fit for survival so that it's new "mutated" gene would carry over to it's young and then continue making [millions of] "good" mistakes in the same cells thus "building" a functional set of wings (and what about the problem of feathers?) until, finally the animal took flight?

    And what about the animal that was almost fully evolved enough to fly yet still needed just a few thousand more "good" mistakes before it could really fly, was there another of the opposite sex evolving the same way nearby and those two, by chance had a romantic encounter giving the very first set of fully evolved wings life, who would that first fully flying bird find for a mate to further the mistake-created species or, given enough time, the conditions were right that the opposite sex was going to have the same good mistakes at the same time, go through all of the changes that the first bird went through to end up with all of the mistakes necessary to get together at the right time with the opposite sex who just happened to live nearby?

    And all of this would needs have happened over and over again millions and millions of time throughout history! And that is only to produce one pair of flying birds and you are going to try to tell my kid who is in middle school that all of life came about like this and not even allow the idea of an intelligent, supernatural Designer yet pump all of this nonsense into their growing brain? That is the epitome of ignorance and the pinnacle of crapola.

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    1. That is the epitome of ignorance and the pinnacle of crapola.

      Closed minds.

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    2. Outstanding Mr. August...!

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  2. Worth watching how agile they are. On the other hand, have you ever been anywhere around a wild turkey flying through woods? It sounds like a pair of boots in a clothes dryer. No wonder they spend most of their time walking.

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    1. No wonder they spend most of their time walking.

      :) We used to have one that would follow you around like a dog, but some dogs killed it along with most my sheep and more.

      http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=3265&highlight=sheep

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