Throughout the debate on whether to include Creationism, Intelligent Design or simply a more critical view of the Theory of Evolution in Public School Curriculum mainstream media and many a pro-Evolution entity have attempted to paint this as a "Religion vs. Science" story. They argue that the Creationist Movement is nothing more than a dangerous proxy for the Religious Right to destroy science and human rights. But this assessment is far from the truth; there is a strong case against many if not all the claims that the Theory of Evolution and its adherents believe. Enter the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose October 1997 press release through Science Daily delivers a severe blow to a very famous claim that most certainly many reading this remember learning in school. Here are some interesting points from the article.

Researchers found that a "study of bird, alligator and turtle embryos at early stages offer convincing evidence that the 'fingers' of bird wings correspond to the index, middle and ring fingers of humans, while the little finger and 'thumb' have been lost."

The problem for Dinosaur-Bird Link proponents is this: "Dinosaurs had 'fingers' corresponding to the first, second and third fingers on human hands, and as a result, it is almost impossible to envision how a bird wing could have evolved from a dinosaur hand."

"The theory that birds descended from dinosaurs has become dogma in the past 20 years or so, and yet a large number of people do not accept it because there are insurmountable problems with that theory...there is the time problem in that superficially bird-like dinosaurs occurred some 30 million to 80 million years after the earliest known bird, which is 150 million years old," said Dr. Alan Feduccia, an evolutionist and longtime critic of the Dinosaur-Bird Link.

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"Embryo Studies Show Dinosaurs Could Not Have Given Rise To Modern Birds" Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1997/10/971027064254.htm (Accessed 09/24/2007)