Folds to Feathers?

Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?

by Ken Ham on March 16, 2023

Part 4

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This is Ken Ham, coauthor of the eye-opening book on Noah’s Food, A Flood of Evidence.

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As we’ve seen this week, evolutionists believe dinosaurs evolved into birds. In their worldview, scales must’ve, by chance, evolved into feathers. But how?

You see, feathers grow from individual tube-like follicles in the skin. But reptile scales are all connected, like a big sheet over the whole body.

Feathers are grown and shed in matched pairs. But scales are shed all together.

Feathers are very complex. They’ve a branching structure, interlocking barbs, and tiny hinged “hooklets.” But scales are relatively simple folds in the skin.

Feathers and scales are very different. One didn’t evolve from the other—it’s impossible!

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