[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Having watched my pet birds use their wings and feet to climb sheer vertical surfaces, I believe they evolved wings to climb to escape predators, not to glide.

Just my personal opinion.

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Interesting how evolution is a predictive science.

One can look at the fossil record and say that a creature that looks like this has to exist and sooner or later the rocks will yield something very close to the predictions.

The Bible predicts what?

That you can change the coloring of kids by having the nanny goats look at partially pealed branches:

37 Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
38 Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink,
39 they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

Anybody tried repeating this? Anybody? Bueller? Bueller?