Bird Features Show Creation: Beaks, Feathers, Wings, Feet, Migration
by Owen Borville
September 23, 2019
Biology
The features of the bird varieties show strong evidence of creation, specifically, the beak, feathers, feet, wings, and migration patterns. What other animal group has similar body features as the bird varieties. How could these features evolve if they were not part of any other animal group and suddenly appear on the bird varieties? Birds, like many other animal groups, appear suddenly in the fossil record fully formed and not part of a series of evolution.
The strong and sharp beak helps the bird capture and eat food, but the origin of this bodily feature is a mystery outside of the acceptance of a special design and creation event by an Intelligent Designer. The nectar eaters have long and hollow beaks specially designed to extract nectar from certain plants. Was this an accident or random evolution or the product of design and special creation? Just because the bird needs a beak does not explain how the feature appeared. Each bird variety has a specially designed beak for its lifestyle and habitat. As evolutionists and mainstream scientists point toward the variety of beak sizes and shapes as a proof of evolution, these varieties are simply part of variation in living things. The bird beak is composed of keratin, which makes a hard and durable surface. Bird beaks can be used to crack seeds and the long and slender beaks can be used to capture insects. The bird's beak is specially designed according to the type of food it eats: insects, seeds, grains, fruit, nectar, fish, or small mammals. Birds can live in or near a pond, marsh, forest, or prairie and this will determine what type of food is available. The DNA and genes in birds allow for a variety of beak sizes just as humans have a variety of heights, facial features, nose sizes and shapes. However, birds are still birds just as humans are still humans. Bird beak size and shape can vary throughout the generations and during the last 4,000 years since the Flood just as the size and shape of body parts in other animals can vary.
Some birds have a bill tip organ that allows the bird to detect motion, particularly allowing the bird to detect moving animals in front. In billed birds, the bill is used during courtship as two birds rub their bills against each other. Birds also use their beaks for preening, or removing parasites from their skin and to keep their feathers in shape.
Bird feathers are another unique feature of the bird varieties. No other animal has feathers. In addition to helping the bird fly, feathers help the bird stay thermally insulated and waterproof. The color of the bird feathers help in communication, mating, and protection by means of camouflage. Bird feathers can be a variety of colors, such as how the peacock displays. These colors can be produced by the food in which the bird eats. The color can also be produced by light refraction. Bird feathers are made of keratin, which is also found in hair and nails and is the same substance that the beak is made out of. Muscles attached to the base of the feather allow the bird to move it around. Birds grow new feathers every year or two to replace older feathers that wear out. The feather contains a central shaft with a flatter area on each side. The birds contour feathers give it its round shape, while the down feathers provide insulation closer inside. These feathers are so good at insulation that they are used to provide warmth for humans in clothing and bedding products. Feathers are also found between the contour and down feathers to provide added insolation. Some bird feathers also have sensory functions. Birds produce a particular oil that keeps their body waterproof. The largest feathers on a birds body allow it to fly while the smaller feathers on the body provide insulation and streamline their bodies for flying. If birds are the only animals that have feathers, the question is how did birds obtain feathers while others did not. The answer is that birds are part of God's unique design and creation, where animals are specially designed for their environment and are given what they need to survive.
Flight is one of the most unique features of birds, one of the only living things that can fly outside of insects and bats. The wings allow the bird to fly and different birds may use different techniques in order to fly. The hummingbird flaps its wings extremely fast, almost like an insect, allowing it to hover and extract nectar. Long and narrow wings can allow certain birds to glide over long distances without flapping its wings, and therefore, the shape and morphology of its wings control how it flies. Gliding birds can fly long distances over the open ocean and by using wind currents. Long and broad wings can also produce a similar result where birds can fly long distances over the ocean and use the wind currents to extend their flight without flapping their wings.
Some birds, like the penguin, do not fly at all but use their wings for other purposes, such as swimming. The penguin has adapted to swimming in the water and does not have a need for flight. Puffin birds look like penguins and can both swim and fly, giving this bird great versatility. Other birds do not fly but have adapted to life on land, such as the ostrich, which has strong legs for running, and the emu.
Bird feet are also unique, the long slender feet with two, three, or sometimes four toes with sharp, curved claws that are used for grasping and killing prey in some bird varieties. At least one toe extends in the opposite direction to allow for its function and use. Most birds use their feet for walking and perching, as the shape of their feet helps in their athletic ability and in addition allowing them to perch. Swimming birds have webbed feet that help them in the water, as if an Intelligent Designer had them in mind.
All of these features of birds give strong evidence of design by an Intelligent Designer that had them in mind and wanted to give them what they need to survive in nature.
by Owen Borville
September 23, 2019
Biology
The features of the bird varieties show strong evidence of creation, specifically, the beak, feathers, feet, wings, and migration patterns. What other animal group has similar body features as the bird varieties. How could these features evolve if they were not part of any other animal group and suddenly appear on the bird varieties? Birds, like many other animal groups, appear suddenly in the fossil record fully formed and not part of a series of evolution.
The strong and sharp beak helps the bird capture and eat food, but the origin of this bodily feature is a mystery outside of the acceptance of a special design and creation event by an Intelligent Designer. The nectar eaters have long and hollow beaks specially designed to extract nectar from certain plants. Was this an accident or random evolution or the product of design and special creation? Just because the bird needs a beak does not explain how the feature appeared. Each bird variety has a specially designed beak for its lifestyle and habitat. As evolutionists and mainstream scientists point toward the variety of beak sizes and shapes as a proof of evolution, these varieties are simply part of variation in living things. The bird beak is composed of keratin, which makes a hard and durable surface. Bird beaks can be used to crack seeds and the long and slender beaks can be used to capture insects. The bird's beak is specially designed according to the type of food it eats: insects, seeds, grains, fruit, nectar, fish, or small mammals. Birds can live in or near a pond, marsh, forest, or prairie and this will determine what type of food is available. The DNA and genes in birds allow for a variety of beak sizes just as humans have a variety of heights, facial features, nose sizes and shapes. However, birds are still birds just as humans are still humans. Bird beak size and shape can vary throughout the generations and during the last 4,000 years since the Flood just as the size and shape of body parts in other animals can vary.
Some birds have a bill tip organ that allows the bird to detect motion, particularly allowing the bird to detect moving animals in front. In billed birds, the bill is used during courtship as two birds rub their bills against each other. Birds also use their beaks for preening, or removing parasites from their skin and to keep their feathers in shape.
Bird feathers are another unique feature of the bird varieties. No other animal has feathers. In addition to helping the bird fly, feathers help the bird stay thermally insulated and waterproof. The color of the bird feathers help in communication, mating, and protection by means of camouflage. Bird feathers can be a variety of colors, such as how the peacock displays. These colors can be produced by the food in which the bird eats. The color can also be produced by light refraction. Bird feathers are made of keratin, which is also found in hair and nails and is the same substance that the beak is made out of. Muscles attached to the base of the feather allow the bird to move it around. Birds grow new feathers every year or two to replace older feathers that wear out. The feather contains a central shaft with a flatter area on each side. The birds contour feathers give it its round shape, while the down feathers provide insulation closer inside. These feathers are so good at insulation that they are used to provide warmth for humans in clothing and bedding products. Feathers are also found between the contour and down feathers to provide added insolation. Some bird feathers also have sensory functions. Birds produce a particular oil that keeps their body waterproof. The largest feathers on a birds body allow it to fly while the smaller feathers on the body provide insulation and streamline their bodies for flying. If birds are the only animals that have feathers, the question is how did birds obtain feathers while others did not. The answer is that birds are part of God's unique design and creation, where animals are specially designed for their environment and are given what they need to survive.
Flight is one of the most unique features of birds, one of the only living things that can fly outside of insects and bats. The wings allow the bird to fly and different birds may use different techniques in order to fly. The hummingbird flaps its wings extremely fast, almost like an insect, allowing it to hover and extract nectar. Long and narrow wings can allow certain birds to glide over long distances without flapping its wings, and therefore, the shape and morphology of its wings control how it flies. Gliding birds can fly long distances over the open ocean and by using wind currents. Long and broad wings can also produce a similar result where birds can fly long distances over the ocean and use the wind currents to extend their flight without flapping their wings.
Some birds, like the penguin, do not fly at all but use their wings for other purposes, such as swimming. The penguin has adapted to swimming in the water and does not have a need for flight. Puffin birds look like penguins and can both swim and fly, giving this bird great versatility. Other birds do not fly but have adapted to life on land, such as the ostrich, which has strong legs for running, and the emu.
Bird feet are also unique, the long slender feet with two, three, or sometimes four toes with sharp, curved claws that are used for grasping and killing prey in some bird varieties. At least one toe extends in the opposite direction to allow for its function and use. Most birds use their feet for walking and perching, as the shape of their feet helps in their athletic ability and in addition allowing them to perch. Swimming birds have webbed feet that help them in the water, as if an Intelligent Designer had them in mind.
All of these features of birds give strong evidence of design by an Intelligent Designer that had them in mind and wanted to give them what they need to survive in nature.
