"Peter Jason" wrote in
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"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?



7. They used their time machine to land at Kitty Hawk in 1903, and
bought the plans from one of the Wright brothers.

Sean