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Theropod �arms� (relative to body size) are tiny, compared with the wings of supposedly early birds.

�... most theropod dinosaurs and in particular the birdlike dromaeosaurs are all very much later in the fossil record than Archaeopteryx [the supposed first bird].� Hinchliffe, p. 597.

Birds have many unique features difficult to explain from any evolutionary perspective, such as feathers, tongues, and egg shell designs.

j. �When and where the first Primates made their appearance is also conjectural....It is clear, therefore, that the earliest Primates are not yet known...� William Charles Osman Hill, Primates (New York: Interscience Publishers, Inc., 1953), Vol. 1, pp. 25�26.

�The transition from insectivore to primate is not clearly documented in the fossil record.� A. J. Kelso, Physical Anthropology, 2nd edition (New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1974), p. 141.

�Modern apes, for instance, seem to have sprung out of nowhere. They have no yesterday, no fossil record. And the true origin of modern humans�of upright, naked, toolmaking, big-brained beings�is, if we are to be honest with ourselves, an equally mysterious matter.� Lyall Watson, �The Water People,� Science Digest, May 1982, p. 44.

k. �At any rate, modern gorillas, orangs and chimpanzees spring out of nowhere, as it were. They are here today; they have no yesterday, unless one is able to find faint foreshadowings of it in the dryopithecids.� Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981; reprint, New York: Warner Books, 1982), p. 363.