Richard W. Stevens points out that a bird does not fly just because it has wings; it needs a Explanations of the evolution of flight do not account for that.“flight” program in its brain.
Tag: flight
Insects losing the ability to fly allegedly proves Darwin right
Losing an ability is not the question. It is gaining an ability that matters. But if people need a publication and a bunch of citations, maybe that’s the story they’ll pretend props up Darwinism.
Discovery: Spiders fly hundreds of miles using electricity
They sense and manipulate Earth’s electric fields.
Gull wing stability prompts talk of “design” in nature
One wonders how the proper authorities are coming with Darwinizing our language, so as to take out all suggestion of design or agency in nature and in humans. Not far, it seems. Maybe, instead of following Dawkins and insisting that design in nature is an illusion, researchers should just be agnostic about it for discussion purposes, given that that is how they routinely talk about it anyway.
Mystery: Extinct birds as well adapted for flight as surviving modern ones
But they aren’t the ancestors of the modern ones. They died out, but why? From ScienceDaily: “We know that birds in the early Cretaceous, about 115 to 130 million years ago, were capable of flight but probably not as well adapted for it as modern birds,” said Atterholt, who is now an assistant professor and Read More…