Toothless birds: Deprogramming from Darwinism [Excerpts]
We are informed in [a] New Scientist article that “Early birds may have dropped teeth to get airborne.” (Colin Barras, 08 December 2009)
If true, it would be no surprise. It’s the same reason airports impose luggage weight restrictions on passengers. Not clear why this is even a story. Apparently, four extinct groups of birds all lost their teeth independently.
“That theory is ‘as good as any other’, says Mike Benton at the University of Bristol, UK, though he remains sceptical. ‘Losing teeth wouldn’t make a huge difference to balance in the air.’ ”
Essentially, the big problem for birds isn’t losing their teeth, it is replacing them. The birds needed a whole digestive system that substitutes small stones and grit, swallowed into the “crop”, and the behaviour pattern of seeking them out and swallowing them.
I wonder how all that would happen by a multitude of slow Darwinian steps before they starved to death?
http://www.uncommondescent.com/evolution/toothless-birds-deprogramming-from-darwinism/
