Most people know what a bird is and would recognize one if they saw one. There’s little confusion, regardless of size, shape or color. But evolutionists have been blurring the definition for years, and, as a result, some people have become confused. More specifically, evolutionists want to convince the public that birds are dinosaurs. Today, if you see any images of dinosaurs, they’re often depicted with feathers, fur, or some kind of covering. Even the Jurassic Park movies have joined the cause.

The attached video with Dr. Gabriela Haynes (paleontologist) and Joel Leineweber (paleoartist) provides a rebuttal of evolutionary thinking, refuting the idea that dinosaurs evolved into birds, and they begin by examining the terms and definitions to see how they’ve been manipulated to cause confusion.

One thing evolutionists have in their favor is that dinosaurs are extinct. This works to their advantage because no one alive today has seen a living dinosaur. Therefore, an artist can easily depict a dinosaur with feathers to convince their audience that dinosaurs had feathers, even if that’s not true. Or they can manipulate a dinosaur fossil to make it look or behave like a bird. If these same dinosaurs and birds were living today, this would not be possible because we’d know what they looked like and wouldn’t be fooled by an artist’s representation.

One example discussed is Pyroraptor olympius, which was featured in the Jurassic Park movie as a large, flightless, feathered, predatory bird. In reality it was about the size of a turkey, and only a few, disconnected fossils were found, none of which contain feather impressions. In fact, some scientists consider Pryroraptor to be a dubious specimen because it’s unknown if the fossils belong to the same individual. Further, it even poses problems within evolutionary classification.

Dr. Haynes explains that evolutionists refer to birds, like archaeopteryx, as feathered dinosaurs. So the definition of ‘dinosaur’ now includes anything evolutionists believe evolved from a dinosaur.  Therefore, to an evolutionist, birds are living dinosaurs. Adding to the confusion, Leineweber states, “Not all animals with feathers have to be birds because it’s not based on anatomy. It’s based on evolution.” So the term non-avian dinosaur was coined by evolutionists to refer to dinosaurs that are not birds, which also muddies the water, as it includes dinosaurs like Pyroraptor, which is assumed to have had feathers.

Microraptor and Caudipteryx are two fossils which contain actual feathers on the wings and tail. But now, in order to prove evolution, the word ‘feather’ may refer to any filamentous structure. This means that dinosaurs without feathers are said to be feathered dinosaurs because some of the fossils are found with a filament. All this also means that birds are reptiles. Got it?

So, how does one tell the difference between a dinosaur and a bird? Our hosts provide a list of features to distinguish between the two. Birds, for instance have feathered wings, swivel wrists and a tiny tail. Dinosaurs, however, have scaly skin, straight wrists and a big tail. Birds also have a soft tissue around the feathers called patagia, and it’s only found on their wings.

One of the many problems evolutionists have is explaining how a dinosaur wrist could evolve into a bird wrist. The anatomy would have to undergo a massive reorganization in a short time, and this is compounded by the fact that dinosaur wrists were well suited for their environment. What would cause that kind of change, and how would transitionary wrists be helpful? What kind of environment would offer an advantage to transitionary wrists while in the in-between stage? If the in-between stage offers an advantage, then what’s driving it to evolve further, or all the way? There are so many questions that don’t add up, yet evolutionists find ways around these obstacles by demanding it.

In contrast to evolution, the Bible tells us that God created birds on Day Five of creation, and he created them to reproduce after their kind. Then, on Day Six, God created land animals- including dinosaurs- and he created them to reproduce after their kind. So evolution is effectively ruled out by biblical creation.

This is a deep subject, and a video like this can’t do it justice in such a short time, but it’s a good start. Check out the video if you have 17 minutes, or speed up the playback speed if short on time. If you find the video helpful, check out some other videos, like No, Birds Did NOT Evolve From Dinosaurs