[forsnax5]

The linked website has some video clips of chukar partridges demonstrating the concept...

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[StriperSniper]

Related post: Bird wings can help keep birds down, not up (BREAKING)

[forsnax5]

Early bird speculation Ping!

[ClearCase_guy]

As C.S. Lewis said:

Christians have to believe in a loving and all-powerful God.

Scientists have to believe that life spontaneously came into existence out of inorganic compounds, that this primitive life eventually evolved into plants, that the plants evolved into primitive animals, that the animals evolved into birds, insects, reptiles, fish, amphibians, and mammals. Scientists further believe that some of the mammals evolved into the primates, that some of the primates evovled into Neandethals with big brains, and that the big-brained Neanderthals were superceded by the small-brained Cro-Magnons. Scientists go on to believe that Cro-Magnons were in the world for 50,000 years without really amounting to much, until about 5000 years ago when things began to improve. Suddenly, after about a billion years of this evolution, scientists believe that we needed only 5000 years to go from living in caves to walking on the Moon.

I'm not a scientist. I don't have that much Faith.

[johnny7]

Hey... I saw a big friggin' turkey flying the other day.

First thing I thought was DINOSAUR!

Then again, I'm on medication and have a micro-chip in my neck!

[LiteKeeper]

YEC skeptical doubts. There are too many differences. Scales on dinosaurs were folds in the skin, not precursors to feathers, which are hair-like folicles. The bones of birds are hollow, dinosaurs are not. The respiratory systems are totally different: dinosaurs would breathe in and out, the way humans do. Birds breathe in only, and the air passes out a different route. Most importantly, the DNA information for the feathers and the respiratory system found in birds is not found in dinosaurs...the change from dinosaur DNA to bird DNA would be like trying to make a Tom Clancy book into a Barbara Bradford book after it was published...it just ain't going to happen.

[LiteKeeper]

The linked website has some video clips of chukar partridges demonstrating the concept...

Major problem with their model...a chukar is already a bird...with bird DNA, with bird bones, and with a bird respiratory system. The chukar doesn't have to overcome the DNA/information deficiency that a reptile would. What amazing faith these scientists must possess!

[meowmeow]

maybe those penguins who are swimming in circles in SF are simply trying to evolve and fly out of there

[far sider]

Two-legged dinosaurs may have used their forelimbs as wing-like structures to propel themselves rapidly up steep inclines long before they took to the skies...

Yeah, right. What a laugh.

The new theory adds a middle step that may link two current and opposing explanations for how reptiles evolved into flying birds.

Sounds like they now have THREE "current and opposing" theories. And they say creationists will believe anything?

[bert]

Last week, I saw video of a bird called a cassawary. I have seen the remains of bird like dinasours with bony protusions along the ridge of their scalp. The cassawary had such a protrusion.

Cassawary=bird=dinasour qed

[AndrewC]

Those are nice videos, but what is more likely, an animal displaying a prototypical behavior or an "armless" animal flapping the appendages not being used for anything else to help it climb up an incline?

Finally, I chuckle at this comment.

and adult birds used their wings literally to defy gravity.

What are wings for?

[Ciexyz]

Hmmm....