False Facts and obsolete teachings
Rice University through OpenStax, a free on line study resource, in one of its biology lessons stated: "Archaeopteryx and Xiaotingia, for example, were flying dinosaurs and are believed to be early precursors of birds".
https://cnx.org/contents/GFy_h8cu@10.115:E4i-YQIZ@7/Breathing
However, evolutionist Dr. Alan Feducia, contradicted that statement by saying: "one of the more famous alleged transitional fossils claimed by evolutionists is Archaeopteryx", and bluntly stated:
| “ | 'Paleontologists have tried
to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it’s
not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of ‘paleobabble’ is
going to change that". (Emphasis added) (Source: Dr. Jonathan Sarfati, P.H.D., F.M., Archaeopteryx (unlike Archaeoraptor) is NOT a hoax — it is a true bird, not a “missing link”) Another medical doctor's statement Dr David Menton also stated that Archaeopteryx is a true bird with flight feathers, not a transitional form—and certainly not a feathered dinosaur. http://creation.com/archaeopteryx-unlike-archaeoraptor-is-not-a-hoaxit-is-a-true-bird-not-a-missing-link  |
(Image courtesy of Steve Cardno at www.genesis.com-http://creation.com/archaeopteryx-unlike-archaeoraptor-is-not-a-hoaxit-is-a-true-bird-not-a-missing-link)
Other horse and human evolution false statements in OpenStax
A few pages later Openstax openly endorses evolution again as if it is a proven fact when, under fossils subheading, it says: "For example, scientists have recovered highly detailed records showing the evolution of humans and horses."
"https://cnx.org/contents/GFy_h8cu@10.115:noBcfThl@7/Understanding-Evolution
Nevertheless, Dr Niles Eldredge, curator of the American Museum of Natural History boldly, in stark contradiction to Openstax assertions, states:
"I admit that an awful lot of that [imaginary stories] has gotten into the textbooks as though it were true. For instance, the most famous example still on exhibit downstairs [in the American Museum] is the exhibit on horse evolution prepared perhaps 50 years ago. That has been presented as literal truth in textbook after textbook. Now I think that that is lamentable.." https://answersingenesis.org/evidence-against-evolution/whats-happened-to-the-horse/
Peter Hastie, writing on this subject then said. "The largest horse today is the Clydesdale; the smallest is the Fallabella, which stands at 43 centimetres (17 inches) tall. Both are members of the same species, and neither has evolved from the other".
Hastie concluded. "Why do science textbooks continue to use the horse as a prime example of evolution, when the whole schema is demonstrably false? Why do they continue to teach our kids something that is not scientific?"
Evolutionists use lies and or misinformation in order to win the hearts of our children.
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