PT Jan-67 - Herbert W. Armstrong Library and Archives

THE FABLE OF THE
FIRST FATAL FLIGHT
Millions of years ago, according to evolution, our fine feathered
friends, the birds, reared ugly, slimy heads from fetid
seas, and slithered ashore. Over uncountable aeons of time,
they climbed trees, leapt from branch to branch - and gradually
grew feathers! As time kept passing, they " learned,"
says evolution, to hover, glide, soar, flitter, and even fly
backward! BIRDS CAME FROM REPTILES - or so say the textbooks.
But is such a theory LOGICAL? Can it be PROVED?
Read, in this eye-opening article, about a "fowl" hypothesis
- one for the birds!
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HAT DOES it take to fly?
Flight has fasc inated man,
with his superior intellect,
for thousands of years. Still, instead of
sprouting wings, rp.an has learned to
make machines to carry him through
the skies, and even into space.
But is there any person who did
not, as a ch ild, gaze at the fantastic
array of beautiful birds everywhere in
nature, and wish he could fly?
There are birds that soar, birds that
flutter, birds that dive, sail, migrate
thousands of miles, and even birds that
fly backward.
The huge albatross, roam ing the
vastness of the Pacific Ocean, may attain
an unbelievable wingspread of
TWELVE FEET. That means he's as far
from wing tip to wing tip as a
4' 11" man would be, standing on Lew
Alcindor's head (Alcindor, the UCLA
basketbaLl sensation, stands 7' 10/S"
tall ' ) .
Tiny hummingbirds, not much bigger
than big bumblebees, fly straight
ahead with remarkable speed, and even
back up in midair!
And these birds, and all the other
myriads of colorful, winged creatures,
say evolutionists, came from slithering
lizards!
by G arner Ted A rm strong
A Fabulous "Link" to Lizards!
Universally heralded as the one
great "link" between all birds and
reptiles is "Archaeopteryx," a foss ilized,
bi rd-like creature, found in stratified
rock near a lake in Bavaria.
"Archaeopteryx" means, sjmply, "ancient
wing."
But what is so unusual about " Archaeopteryx"
?
The creature has characteristics that
are strangely like those of LIZARDS, say
the evolutionists - though also possessing
the appearance of a bird.
Evolutionary thought consists of
ample conjecture, imagi nation, guesswork,
and fantasy to make a mother
goose rhyme pale into insignificance.
And changing an ugly beast into a
raving beauty is precisely what evolution
claims happened!
"Imagine," says a bird biologist, "a
strange bird-llke creature the size of a
crow" gliding over an ancient Bavarian
lake.
"Or was it more reprile-like? We
cannot be surc," continues the storyfor
"it appeared to have some of the
features of both reptiles and birds."
"Suddenly," goes the dramatic tale,
our bird-like creature, with its feeble
powers of flight, was unable to cope
with a sharp gust of wind and fell
into the shallow waters below and
drowned."
This is the Jayman's introduction
into bird biology - the imaginary story
of how something MIGHT have happened
to preserve a fossil find in Bavaria;
one which claims to link birds
with beasts.
What a tragic end to a short flight!
If, of course, the bird EVER FLEW.
The Missing Evidence
Evolutionists readily admit the paucity
of fossils to substantiate such a
theory - but insist their theories are
"clear" " IN SPlTE OF THE PAT CHINESS
OF THE EVIDENCE"!
You are about to see, with your
own eyes, another example of the
classic "FAITH" of evoJution!
Because evolution, after all, IS
FAITH! It is a dogmatic assertion that
certain changes DID occur, and an almost
religious-like CLINGING to that notion,
IN SPITE OF all logic, contradictory
evidence, or rational thought!
Notice! "Archaeopteryx" was brought
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