THE RANDLE REPORT

ORNITHOSAURUS

The University of Southampton has caused to be produced a reptilian remake of the famous phony ape-to-man graphic, this time to reinforce the determinedly held nonsensical notion that dinosaurs ‘evolved’ into birds.

Anything that is going to take fifty million years to do needs a fair amount of persistence, a hundred or more times the vision of our current world leaders, and a bloody good reason for doing.

Palaeontologists are notorious for gathering piles of old bones, forcing them together and, with the aid of metal armatures and hundredweights of plaster of Paris, creating Mesozoic muppets or things that are half dog, half dinner.

The jolly old Smallfilms-style archaeopteryx was half bird, half pterodactyl, and not a little half-baked. His long search for a mate would have made a moving episode of ‘Walking with Disney’. He could have succeeded in the last reel, and they could have given birth to an egg with a little lion stamped on it. But he won’t do for the modern computer-generated world.

There have been too many things in the past that were half and half.

Scientism won’t give up its quest to prove Darwin wasn’t even slightly mistaken until it does for all of us in the process.

This handy, and comparatively harmless, graphic clearly shows how the drawing evolves from a lizard thing into a little tweety bird.

Clever old mindless and accidental evolution usefully, if somewhat long-windedly, modified the heavy, scaly lizard into something that wouldn’t break a bird-table. Its balancing tail shrivels away, its weakest features (spindly arms) become magnificent multi-directional wings – and, by these clever ruses, ornithosaurus is able to avoid the asteroids that fall from the sky to explain the disappearance of its non-feathered friends, and figure out how and why to fly to freaking Africa!

Pull the other one – it’s got scales on.

From BLINDED WITH SCIENCE available from The Book Depository