Evolution - What's the good of half a wing?

Weird Nature - Flight

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• evolution
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• dawkins
• darwin
• natural
• selection
• creation
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[BEAST636]

@furlip "How does a mutant offspring, with bad chance of survival, have other mutants"

It doesn't, it dies!

NATURAL SELECTION! If something is born with a disadvantage then it is less likely to survive in time to reproduce. That negative trait or mutation won't get passed on to the next generation. This is why things look designed, because we don't see all the failures... It's a psychological trick where by we only 'see' part of the story and therefore 'assume' we're created.

[BEAST636]

@furlip "Not only would an animal born with webbed-digits have a much harder time than his parents in survival"

How would webbed feet be a disadvantage in water? or to act as a parachute? In nature, you'll find a massive amount of animals with different stages of webbed feet. It doesn't happen in ONE mutation but in incremental stages, each one out performing the other. Natural selection filters out the bad...

[BEAST636]

@furlip You commented on this video 9 months ago & you still don't know how evolution works.

"evo-scenario"? You mean the theory of evolution? Some research you've made....

"mutant offspring with wings" There were no mutant offspring with wings!! Please let me know where you got this information from. What scientist? or rather, what creationist?

Google image the "fruit bat" & look at how their wings have massive elongated fingers. Evolution works by "tinkering" with existing body parts.

[BEAST636]

@furlip "why is it entitled "What good is half a wing"?"

This video was uploaded after i uploaded the video "Prof. Richard Dawkins - What's the good of half a wing?" in which creationists had asked him the question. This video is an extension to that video although i agree that it needs retitling.

"But it's possible still these animals did not "evolve" but were that way since inception of the world."

So why would a god bother to create half a wing??

[jnoort]

@furlip

These examples indeed do not show how birds evolved their wings, but they do provide examples of functional 'half-wings'. Half a wing is very useful if you want to jump down from a tree to surprise a prey.

[zenithar6666]

thtas not half a wing, its a seaprate fully formed flying mechanism>

[BEAST636]

It's not meant to show the evolution of birds wings. It's meant to show how some animals have evolved to take advantage of flight.

Google image search for "flightless birds" and ask yourself WHY!

[Shavarnarak]

And THAT, is what good 'half a wing' is.

(And for those who still wonder about 'half a wing' compare Colugo's and Bat's for fun. I am willing to bet proto-bats looked like colugo's...)

[random0vids]

skydive!