Birds and Flight - Design or Mutations

Andy McIntosh is a Professor of thermodynamics. In this talk he examines the structures that enable creatures to fly. He asks could these structures have arisen gradually by natural selection or do they make up a system, where each part is needed fully formed, before the others are of use? This talk starts by looking at bird navigation and ends by comparing the lungs of birds with those of dinosaurs. This is a fascinating exploration of flight.

Dr Andy C. McIntosh is a Professor (the highest teaching/research rank in U.K. university hierarchy) in Combustion Theory at Leeds University. He has written many books and lectured extensively in universities. He has mostly focused on the complexity and design inferences illustrated by flight capabilities of organisms. In addtion, he works on how many kinds of insects such as bombardier beetles can support the creation model.

Edinburgh Creation Group is an active forum where scientifically minded people meet to discuss evidence supporting the biblical account of creation. http://edinburghcreationgroup.org

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[franksrobots]

This guy is a creationist nutter. Just listen to the way he screeches out his anti evolution ideas. Evolution scientists realise that it's a difficult problem to unravel and to figure out how life came about. This professor guy just wants to take the easy way out and take a short cut to solving the problem of life. Ok let's agree with him. And so how did his god plant life on this earth? What was the scientific or otherwise explanation? It just happened as in his bible book? Can the good profes

[MsHyde1]

@mikdalton: Yeah, seriously, can anyone point me to a lecture of a real, competent dr./prof. dealing with dinosaurs? Because YT seems to be clogged up with creationists crap.

[mikdalton]

Ah so this is a Professor of a totally different field talking about Evolution. He must be right!

[Ahabite]

@nzstuartnz Did you record your data? Control for potentially data-skewing phenomena, etc.?

As a materials engineer I am sure you can appreciate the value of careful data collection,and the uselessness of anecdotal evidence for sweeping generalities. I would think you would record this data to further the agenda of evolution deniers or YEC et al.,

Regards

[Ahabite]

It must be a tendency of people to see authorities as infallible, viz., Dr McIntosh is a highly-educated and succesful scientist who is also a Creationist; therefore here is a good example of a non-crackpot who believes in a designer. I have several issues with this: 1. So what? Maybe he is, in spite of his education, just wrong. 2. I don't see anywhere what his definition of a god is. A question: Even with proof that a god exists, how do you know it's your god?

[nzstuartnz]

ps batistaker123 ...I have worked with hundreds of scientists and engineers... about 60% had faith in evolution and 30% in a creator of some sort. So thats not your 99%! where did you get that from? Tasha

[nzstuartnz]

In our engineering design class at Uni, the lecturer showed us great engineering designs and said "behind every great design, there is a greater designer". I agreed. We looked at aircraft design. Then bird design. (see previous post).

[nzstuartnz]

greed. Only a hard heart would believe anything else. He showed us the bird and its design; we were amazed. Thanks for your video. Tasha (materials engineer in NZ)

[gregrutz]

Everything you think of as bird-like, dinosaurs evolved: Feathers, hollow bones, warm blood, oval eggs in nests, three forward toes, etc. etc. etc.

[batistaker123]

@BereanBeacon1 Interesting I guess I should believe everything in a book compiled 2000 years ago. Especially when this book speaks of talking snakes, talking donkeys, and dragons. Sounds like a reliable source to me. Thank you for enlightening me my friend!