Penguin Wing Evolution Story Fails

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Time and time again, proponents of descent with modifications are presented with fossils of creatures that show no appreciable change between then and now. Some evolutionists admit that they walk by by faith, not by sight. The thought of admitting there is a Creator makes them squirm.

There are seventeen accepted species of penguins. Despite common ideas, they are not confined to Antarctica, but are found in diverse places such as southern Africa, the Galápagos, and more. They vary in size with the smallest being the blue (little, fairy) penguin at thirteen inches (33 cm).

Blue penguin, Flickr / Laurens (CC BY-ND 2.0)
A few fossil fragments about the size of the blue penguin were found. It could be considered an eighteenth species. Although this child is suspicious of the amount of information that can be deduced from a few fossils because big mistakes have been made, scientists are telling us that the new fossil (Pakudyptes) shows the wings were like those of modern penguins — flippers, actually.

Indeed, it is obvious that penguins did not evolve from flight-capable birds and then later developed their sophisticated swimming ability. They were created to swim fast, deep, and skillfully. It would be in their best interests for secular scientists to admit the truth, and then see what the Creator has to say to us. Evolutionary stories based on imagination just won't do.
For decades, conventional evolutionary speculation has argued that penguins have vestigial bird wings which are now useless for flight. The Darwinian belief is that penguins’ wing-like limbs are evolutionary remnants of once-functional wings that their ancestors used for powered flight millions of years ago. As penguins “adapted to an aquatic lifestyle, their wings gradually became better suited for swimming than flying.” The evolutionary view is that some birds have turned into very different animals which are no longer aerial but rather terrestrial and aquatic.

Penguins are classified as flightless birds because evolutionists believe that they evolved from some ancient avian ancestor, as also did ostriches, emus, kiwis and other animals that allegedly had lost the ability to fly long ago.

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