Posted: Apr 16, 2012 3:48 pm
Shrunk wrote:Animavore wrote:Birds actually have scales on their legs. This is especially prominent on large birds. You can see this on my friend's turkeys. As you look up the leg you actually see the scales begin to become more perpendicular to the leg, elongated and feathery, quite quickly, as they near the top of the leg. I really don't see the problem there with that one. Once you pluck a turkey there's no scales under the feathery parts, because the feathers are the scales.
Interesting. So a series "transitional forms" right there on an organism that actually lives in the present day. But creationists insist there are no "transitional forms." How could that be? They'd have to be either stupid, ignorant or dishonest to make such a claim.
Well. I wouldn't jump the gun. I've been doing some quick reading and can't find reference to the effect I'm talking about. It might just be scales ending and small feathers beginning rather than a continuum.
EDIT: That is to say, in light of the knowledge that feathers evolve from scales I may have seen what I wanted to see.