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Which should be news the reporter, given that we\u2019re usually led to believe that science already knows little things like that.\u00a0 Truth be told, as a physicist and mathematician once explained to me, based on our current laws of science and understanding of flight, flight could not have evolved.\u00a0 It\u2019s impossible, for flight is more than the existence of wings, or as this article suggests, wings and a brain wired for figuring out how to fly.\u00a0 It has to have the entire organism in place, bone weight, mass, body shape, wing size, etc., in order to be able to fly.\u00a0 There is no way those things could simultaneously evolve \u2013 or the chances are so beyond comprehension that it\u2019s far easier to believe the Tooth Fairy did it.\u00a0 That\u2019s not to say he believed such was some slam dunk against evolution or anything.\u00a0 It merely went to show the deficiencies in what we actually know versus what we wish we knew but often pass off as knowledge \u2013 something that would have been nice for this reporter<\/a> to catch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which should be news the reporter, given that we\u2019re usually led to believe that science already knows little things like that.\u00a0 Truth be told, as a physicist and mathematician once explained to me, based on our current laws of science and understanding of flight, flight could not have evolved.\u00a0 It\u2019s impossible, for flight is more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nScientists prove how birds first flew!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Which should be news the reporter, given that we're usually led to believe that science already knows little things like that.  Truth be told, as a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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