Decisions, decisions, decisions... etc. forever.
Evolution is God’s way of presenting what he created, one living thing at a time, with changes to all those things over time... and VOILA!... we now have trillions of ‘evolved’ things that God created with his infinite number of decisions.
Not evolution. Not changes. Not mutations. All that we see and hear and touch and smell and taste and think about and work with, all came from God’s unending number of decisions. Think about all that is in our environments and even outside our environments (including all that we observe in the cosmos), and we have to come to the conclusion that, it’s all been made possible through the infinite number of decisions from God. And, he’s not finished making an infinite number of more decisions.
We can explore what God created, but, only because He ‘DECIDED” to give us the capability to ‘explore’ and learn and make changes, but even those changes are through His decision to allow us to make observations and believe that we can change things. God created us in “His” image, but only to a very limited extent.
Feather and skin “evolution”? Not even close!
As you noted, this animal already had feathers and a scaly skin. Fully developed, not some halfway incomplete structures that would possibly become feathers and scales.....................