[Excerpt from "5 Examples of Reverse Evolution by National Geographic – A Religion of Idiocy"]
Penguins: No Fly Zone!
Jenny Morber explains that penguin birds devolved into flightless birds by “(evolving) bigger muscles to better power through the water, denser bones that added strength and reduced buoyancy, and shorter, stiffer wings for more powerful swimming strokes with less drake.
Why didn’t the penguins (when they could fly of course) just migrate to a more tropical area in order to survive (it would have been much easier for them you know)? Why did penguins decide to evolve in one of the most dangerous environments on earth?
Do these sci-fi-lientists actually believe their own nonsense? Penguins have an abundance of “non-bird” traits. It is extremely far fetched to compare penguins to the type of flying birds we know of today.
– NON-BIRD TRAIT 1: There is no bird known to man that can dive like a penguin and stay under water for up to 18-minutes.– NON-BIRD TRAIT 2: Birds have amazing eyesight in the air and on land; penguins have terrible eyesight on land but amazing eyesight in water.– NON-BIRD TRAIT 3: The feet of a penguin is not vestigial wings like evolutionists would like you to believe. Penguins have flippers.
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Evolution. You do not understand it.
"Do these sci-fi-lientists actually believe their own nonsense?"
NON-BIRD TRAIT 3: The feet of a penguin is not vestigial wings like evolutionists would like you to believe. Penguins have flippers.
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NON-BIRD TRAIT 3: The feet of a penguin is not vestigial wings like evolutionists would like you to believe. Penguins have flippers.ROFLMAO
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NON-BIRD TRAIT 1: There is no bird known to man that can dive like a penguin and stay under water for up to 18-minutes.
Yes there is. It's called a penguin. Every species has something unique about it. If they didn't, we wouldn't be able to classify them as different species.
NON-BIRD TRAIT 3: The feet of a penguin is not vestigial wings like evolutionists would like you to believe. Penguins have flippers.
Penguin feet:image
Duck feet:image
So, does that mean that ducks also aren't birds?
Why didn’t the penguins (when they could fly of course) just migrate to a more tropical area in order to survive (it would have been much easier for them you know)? Why did penguins decide to evolve in one of the most dangerous environments on earth?
Damn, where to even begin?
Why didn’t the penguins (when they could fly of course) just migrate to a more tropical area in order to survive (it would have been much easier for them you know)?
Why did penguins decide to evolve in one of the most dangerous environments on earth?
NON-BIRD TRAIT 1: There is no bird known to man that can dive like a penguin and stay under water for up to 18-minutes.
NON-BIRD TRAIT 2: Birds have amazing eyesight in the air and on land; penguins have terrible eyesight on land but amazing eyesight in water.
NON-BIRD TRAIT 3: The feet of a penguin is not vestigial wings like evolutionists would like you to believe. Penguins have flippers.
"Why did penguins decide to evolve"
Why did you decide to be an imbecile?
"The feet of a penguin is not vestigial wings like evolutionists would like you to believe. "
Evolutionists would not like you to believe the feet of a penguin are vestigial wings like cretinists would like you to believe. Evolutionists have brains.
Before you all criticize the poster, I would like to remind you of The Second Penguin Council of 24,350 BC. There, the issue was hotly debated as to whether or not to migrate to warmer climes or stay in a relatively predator free area and evolve. The final vote of the council was 6-3 to stay.
Once upon a time there was a niche in the southern part of the world where resources ("food") was in abundance, but required special skills to exploit.
Penguins evolved these skills to fill that niche.
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The environment the penguins evolved in changed over time. Changes in the penguins traits tracked that environment just like any other creature. Penguins did not just "decide to evolve" in a particular place and that particular place did not stay the same over geologic time.
NBT 1 - So what, there's no cat that can run like the cheetah.
NBT 2 - There are many diving birds that can see well enough underwater to catch prey. I haven't the slightest idea about penguin eyesight on land but it does occur to me that
A) penguins don't hunt or search for food on land
NBT 3 - As has already been pointed out, penguins have webbed feet just like many aquatic birds. And if I'm understanding you about "flippers" you really mean the wings which makes this ...
NBT 4 - Penguin flippers are wings, try peeking at their anatomy sometime. While their bones have widened and become denser and their breast plate has enlarged over time they contain all the same bones and basic articulation of their relatives. There is probably more variation in dog anatomy in the same dog "kind" (lol) due to artificial selection by humans than there is between penguins and other birds due to natural selection and genetic drift so I don't get the problem really.
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So kiwis, penguins, ostriches, rheas, and emus aren't birds,
Why do you assume the change in their environment happened overnight?
Not overnight. Remember it took 6,000 years for them to accomplish this, and
Nothing "decides" to evolve, or you would be a lot smarter person than you now are.
Penguins did not migrate to warmer climates because their travel brochures were mistakenly delivered to an uninhabited ice floe.
No "evolutionist" has ever, ever, EVER claimed that penguin feet are vestigial wings.
Any more questions?
The Antarctic is actually lush paradise full of abundant resources, as well as a comparatively safe place to hatch eggs.
The resources are under the water, where you can get them if you swim well. Penguins swim well. On land, comparatively few predators threaten their eggs, and penguins can resist the cold. Being a penguin in Antarctica is at least as pleasant as being a tropical bird.
Of course, it isn't pleasant for humans, who quickly freeze and starve there, absent a lot of technology. So humans with limited imaginations can't imagine why a bird might be better off in Antarctica than Tahiti.
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