Paleobaloney
by Doug S. Grauman

On the television show, "Paleoworld," which is a weekly series featured on the Discovery Science Channel, Paleontologist Bob Bakker is desperately trying to brainwash the scientific illiterate by promoting the age-old lie dinosaurs evolved into birds. "In an interview with scientist, James Gardner, Mr. Gardner studies the DNA of both reptiles (cold-blooded) and birds (warm-blooded) looking for similarities in their DNA. Mr. Gardner found there were no similarities in the DNA of birds and reptiles but only similarities in the comparison of two like-blooded organisms, such as the bird and the whale. Not finding the answer of preference, Mr. Gardner then loads up his 'hail-mary' by stating, "...the reptiles were only warm-blooded in the geological past..."(1) Well, how convenient Mr. Gardner and Mr. Bakker, if you don't like the answer, take advantage of your title as scientists and make-up a reason why your conclusion contradicted your theory and then lie about it.

The Biological implications

Good science has always required the burden of proof to be on the proposer of the theory yet Mr. Gardner and Mr. Bakker are never held accountable to an explanation of how such a biological impossibility could ever occur.

"Wings: The proposed ancestors of birds are thought to have walked on their hind legs. Their diminutive forelimbs had digits similar to a hand, but consisting only of digits one, two, and three. Bird forelimbs consist of digits two, three, and four. Today, most hold that ground-dwelling theropods learned to run fast and jump to catch insects and eventually used arms with frayed scales to fly. But flight requires fully formed, interlocking feathers and hollow bones, not to mention the flight muscles and keeled sternum to anchor the muscles.

Feathers: Feathers are not at all similar to scales. Even if scales were frayed, they would not be interlocking and impervious to air as are feathers. Actually, feathers are more similar to hair follicles than scales. Could such precise design arise by mutation? In all the recent discoveries of dinosaur fossils with "feathers," the "feathers" are merely inferred. What is actually present is better described as thin filaments which originate under the skin.

Bones: Birds have delicate, hollow bones to lighten their weight while dinosaurs had solid bones. The placement and design of bird bones may be analogous to those in dinosaurs, but they are actually quite different. For example, the heavy tail of dinosaurs (needed for balance on two legs) would prohibit any possible flight. And besides, the theropods were "lizard-hipped" dinosaurs, not "bird-hipped" as would be expected for bird ancestors.

Warm blooded: Birds are warm blooded with exceptionally high metabolism and food demands. While dinosaur metabolism is in question, all modern reptiles are cold-blooded with a more lethargic life style.

Lungs: Birds are unique among land-dwelling vertebrates in that they don't breathe in and out. The air flows continually in a one-directional loop supporting the bird's high metabolism. Reptilian respiration is entirely different, more like that in mammals.

Other organs: The soft parts of birds and dinosaurs, in addition to the lungs, are totally different. A recent "mummified" dinosaur, with soft tissue fossilized, proved to be quite like a crocodile, and not at all like a bird."(2)

The results of such indoctrinations are devastating. Viewers consume the information just as its presented and too many lack the education to recognize the difference. It's in our libraries, movie theatres, and sadly, even some of our churches. The results are generations of passed down evolutionary dogma that continues to influence people into thinking its all a proven fact and end of discussion. These lies need to be exposed, confronted, and stopped.