The Miracle of Talking Birds
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To Prove that Animals Are Descended from a Single
Ancestor, Then You Should Produce a Mechanism, but There
Is None
If you claim that animals are descended from a common ances-
tor, it’s not enough to use the similarities between animals as proof.
It would be more apt to show a mechanism, but no such mechanism
has yet been put forward. For example, which mechanisms trans-
formed the forelimb of a mouse or a shrew-like animal, imagined
ancestors of bats, into a bat’s wing? Similarly, we can ask what
mechanism caused the hind limbs of a land animal to turn into the
fins of a whale? For this to happen, according to evolutionary theo-
ry, natural selection and mutation are required. However, these two
mechanisms make sense only if all intermediate phases in the evo-
lutionary process are of some advantage to the species. If the in-
complete forms of the said organs afford the animal no benefit, they
are a disadvantage and constitute a handicap for the animal in ques-
tion. Therefore, there is no natural mechanism for developing the
complex organs of animals or for producing genetic information
that corresponds to them.
If Several Animals Share Similar Characteristics, They Cannot
Be Claimed to Have a Common Ancestor
The organs of many creatures resemble those of other animals,
but the evolutionists cannot claim all are derived from one common
ancestor. For example, the eyes of an octopus are very much like
yours, but according to the evolutionists, these similar structures are
not derived from a common root (that is to say homologous). Flies
and birds both have wings, but again, these cannot be described as
homologous. The evolutionists cannot claim an evolutionary rela-
tionship between these animals, despite their great similarities, be-
cause in the so-called evolutionary trees drawn up on the basis of
