"Sean Houtman" wrote in message
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"Peter Jason" wrote in
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I have a theory that birds are descended from insects, because:
1/ Insects knew how to fly already (being small, these creatures
could take advantage of the slightest breeze to become and remain
airborne.) 2/ The avian lung is more like the insect's system, and
remote from those of dinosaurs/reptiles.
3/ Insects have wings already.
4/ Insects have been around longer.
5/ Insects have shorter generations allowing faster natural
selection.



This is a botanical group. If you want to have a theory like that,
at least make it botany related.

Birds are descended from maple seeds.
1) Maple seeds fly.
2) Things always develop into better things, so birds fly better
than maple seeds.
3) Maple seeds have a wing, birds have two wings, insects have 4
wings, insects are descended from birds.
4) Birds can often be seen sitting in maple trees, which is where
you generally find maple seeds.

Sean



Oh dear! It's just like an important new idea to attract disciples of the
wrong sort i.e. those who extrapolate to an unrealistic extent.
Maple seeds do not have lungs, my poor young fellow.
In fact plants don't have lungs at all.
Plants breath with their leaves!
Just think for a minute; how on earth did dinosaurs become airborne??
Did they:
1. Hurl themselves off high cliffs until a spontaneous instantaneous
mutation occurred?
2. Breath in a lot of hot air until like balloons they floated upwards?
3. Cleverly attach spiders' webs to hordes of insects, and like Boudicca
ride the clouds while affecting a Leo Di Caprio at-the-bow-of-the-Titanic
pose?
4. Drag themselves along the ground until their epidermal cells, stung and
annoyed by such treatment, spontaneously turned to feathers?
5. Lie on their backs and pedal ferociously until they rose into the air?
6. Set fire to each other's tails, thereby inspiring rapid headlong rush to
the horizon at such a rate as to aerodynamically levitate?