I'll agree with Mike but only because this is an "evolution" post :)
Clearly if evolution is true then there was an egg that held the first
actual chicken and before that egg was a mutation of a chicken that
wasn't quite a chicken.
A creationist post would have the clear answer that God created the
birds themselves:
"And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature
that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every
winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good."
Genesis 1:21
Now it's story time:
So there was this bird flying around a few million years ago. It
looked down and saw a tree and thought to itself, "boy i bet there's
some tastey larva deep down in that tree". So the bird swooped down,
landed on a branch and started wacking its beak against the tree as
hard as it could to get to the larva until his beak shattered. The
bird died.
So there was this bird flying around a million years later. And this
bird had a super strong beak (unlike any other bird in the world) that
developed in order to get that tastely larva deep down in the tree.
So the bird swooped down, landed on a branch and started wacking its
beak against the tree as hard as it could and his beak was doing
great, but the bird lost his balance, fell to the ground and died.
So there was this bird flying around a million years later. And this
bird had a super strong beak (unlike any other bird in the world), and
it had these extra muscles in its tail (unlike any other bird in the
world) so that it could balance on it like a tripod. So the bird
swooped down, landed on a branch and started wacking its beak against
the tree as hard as it could and his beak was doing great, and he kept
his balance using his tail like a tripod! And the bird saw the larva
in the tree and tried to flick his tongue out to grab it, but his
tongue was shorter than his beak like every other bird in the world.
So the bird went hungry and died.
So there was this bird flying around a million years later. And this
bird had a super strong beak (unlike any other bird in the world), and
it had these extra muscles in its tail (unlike any other bird in the
world), and it had this extra long tongue (unlike any other bird in
the world) so that it could flick its tongue past its beak and grab
that tastey larva. So the bird swooped down, landed on a branch and
started wacking its beak against the tree as hard as it could and his
beak was doing great, and he kept his balance using his tail like a
tripod, and when it finally saw the larva deep in the tree he flicked
his tongue out to grab it... but all he did was get the larva wet.
Because like every other bird in the world his tongue wasn't sticky
and he couldn't grab the tastey larva with it. So the bird went
hungry and died.
So there was this bird flying around a million years later. And this
bird had a super strong beak (unlike any other bird in the world), and
it had these extra muscles in its tail (unlike any other bird in the
world), andit had this extra long tongue (unlike any other bird in the
world), and now it had a sticky tip on his tongue (unlike any other
bird in the world) so that it could grab the tastey larva with it when
he flicked his super long tongue at it made possible by its tripod
tail and super strong beak (all unlike any other bird in the world.
So the bird swooped down, landed on a branch and started wacking its
beak against the tree as hard as it could and his beak was doing
great, and he kept his balance using his tail like a tripod, and when
it finally saw the larva deep in the tree he flicked his super long
tongue out to grab it and this time his super sticky tip on his tongue
allowed him to eat the super tastey larva and the woodpecker lived
happily ever after.
**this story (atleast a similar version that was probably slightly
more fun and more accurate) was told at an answersingenesis
conference. www.answersingenesis.com |
