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The impossible scenarios of evolution also require the life forms that emerged onto dry land, first evolved into amphibians, then reptiles and finally turned into flying creatures. Since evolutionists are convinced that birds had to have evolved in some way, they maintain that they evolved from reptiles.
But none of the physical mechanisms in birds-which have a totally different anatomy from that of terrestrial life forms-can be explained in terms of the gradual evolutionary model. First of all, birds' wings, and moreover even one single feather in these wings, represent an enormous dilemma for the theory of evolution. Evolutionists themselves state the impossibility of a reptile ever being able to fly, admitting that the idea conflicts with the fossil record.
William Elgin Swinton is an emeritus professor of zoology at the University of Toronto and dinosaur expert of the Natural History Museum in London:
There is no fossil evidence of the stages through which the remarkable change from reptile to bird was achieved.234
Alan Feduccia is professor of avian evolution, paleobiology and systematics at the University of North Carolina:
How do you derive birds from a heavy, earthbound, bipedal reptile that has a deep body, a heavy balancing tail, and fore-shortened forelimbs? Biophysically, it's impossible.235
Evolutionist John E. Hill and James D. Smith are the authors of Bats - A Natural History:
The fossil record of bats extends back to the early Eocene.... [A]ll fossil bats, even the oldest, are clearly fully developed bats and so they shed little light on the transition from their terrestrial ancestor.236
Robert L. Carroll is a vertebrate paleontologist:
... all the Triassic pterosaurs were highly specialized for flight... They provide little evidence of their specific ancestry and no evidence of earlier stages in the origin of flight.237
Exactly 1 year ago, paleontologists were abuzz about photos of a so-called "feathered dinosaur," which were passed around the halls at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. The Sinosauropteryx specimen from the Yixian Formation in China made the front page of The New York Times, and was viewed by some as confirming the dinosaurian origins of birds. But at this year's vertebrate paleontology meeting in Chicago late last month, the verdict was a bit different: The structures are not modern feathers, say the roughly half-dozen Western paleontologists who have seen the specimens... Paleontologist Larry Martin of Kansas University, Lawrence, thinks the structures are frayed collagenous fibers beneath the skin-and so have nothing to do with birds.238