Dinos Evolved to Birds

Just two years after Darwin published his famous book a strange bird fossil, Archaeopteryx, showed up. This odd bird skeleton exhibited a few reptile-like characteristics, seemingly confirming Darwin’s theories. Since then, it has become a key specimen in the transitional fossils debate and is still heralded as validation of evolution theory. But creationists have maintained that the “Dino to Bird” Scenario is riddled with problems. One of the biggest challenges we have been trumpeting for a long time is the fact that fully-formed bird species have been found in the exact same rock layer as dinosaurs…indeed in the same horizon as popular dinosaurs that are put forward as bird ancestors. Some of the birds found buried with dinosaurs are parrots, owls, penguins, ducks, loons, albatross, cormorants, sandpipers, and avocets I’m pleased to say that we are making some progress in this regards. A special dinosaur issue of National Geographic came out this month. It highlights the reality creationists have been saying right along: “The picture emerging now shows animals that looked very much like modern birds, flying and diving and pecking in the shadow of the dinosaurs. A select few made it through the mass extinction, and that’s when birds as we know them really took off.” But if modern birds are living beside the dinosaurs, how can one of those dinosaurs slowly evolve into the first bird, who over millions of years would diversify into all the modern bird species?

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Dave.