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Issue Features Discovery Magazine 9/1/1997   Many who believe in
evolution claim that the first birds lived about 140 million
years ago (according to the way evolutionists measure time).
Some say that the very first bird, a strange creature
called Archaeopteryx (AR-kee-OP-ter-ix), was a link between
reptiles and birds.  The reasons evolutionists give for their
views are: (1)Archaeopteryx had claws on its wings; claws, they
say, suggest that Archaeopteryx had been a reptile in the past.
(2) It had teeth; since modern birds don’t, the teeth must hint
of a reptile background.  These arguments do not prove
that Archaeopteryx was a reptile-bird link. Think about the
following:    1. There are modern birds that have claws on their
wings. The hoatzin of South America has claws when it is young.
The touraco of Africa has claws. The ostrich has three claws on
each wing. The presence of "claws" says nothing about a
creature's ancestry.    2. Fossils are the r