I know this is abit long life to the fullest but one of many articles I read on penguins on the internet. I myself to be honest did not or could not have come up with this info from my own head (obviously) so I just c/p. I do believe it makes a number of valid points thou and one thing I do know is that intelligent design is carried out with intelligence far beyond ours. I will always be in awe when i consider design of every creature that crawls, walks, flys,hops,swims or what ever there uniquenesses permits them to do.And the more I see it the more I realize there has to be an intelligence behind it.. Chance cannot apply.
Amazing Design
Thermoregulation
Penguins have a remarkable capacity to regulate their body temperature despite the extreme external temperatures. Their unique overlapping feathers are highly specialized, providing good insulation, waterproofing, and wind resistance. The peculiar structure of the feathers provides extra thickness, and the complex network of blood vessels in their wings also helps the birds thermoregulate.
Molting
Penguins even have a unique molting pattern, retaining their old feathers until the new ones grow in. Their insulation and waterproofing are compromised during this time, so they must remain on land until their once-a-year molt is completed, lasting between 13 and 34 days, depending on the species.
Water movements
Penguins have three kinds of movement in watersurface swimming, porpoising, and underwater flying. Surface swimming is the least efficient. When swimming on the surface, the head is often the only part that is visible. The markings on the head facilitate sight recognition. Each species has its own distinctive patterna white patch on the crown, a brightly colored bill, or a crest. Since air resistance is less than water, porpoising out of the water at intervals increases the efficiency of a penguins swimming and possibly enables it to escape predators. But the penguin is most efficient when swimming underwater, which is really a form of underwater flying, accomplished with its unique wings.
Fascinating Features
Indeed, the most striking thing about penguins is their wings, which are unlike the wings of any other bird. The difference between them and the wings of other birds is that they are designed to fly through the water. The elbow and wrist joints are fused and immobile, and the movement of the shoulder is limited, so that the bird must hang its wings by its sides rather than folding them over its back when it is at rest.
The unique structural design of their wing bones enables penguins to be masters of underwater flight. In addition, their wing muscles are among the largest and strongest of any bird. Indeed, an adult emperor penguin is quite capable of breaking human leg bones with a single blow of its wing.
Tiny air bubbles cling to their feathers as they dive, significantly reducing the waters drag on their bodies, making movement through the water energy efficient. Even their body shape contributes to this energy efficiency. Polar researcher Rudolf Bannasch stated that the penguins body is a natural torpedo, economical on fuel.
The unique characteristics we observe in penguins todayfeather structure, form of molting, wing structure, and body shapehave no equal in the avian world. But have they always been this way? Evolutionary scientists tell us, The penguins are descended from ancestors which had the power of flight, but their evolutionary energy has been concentrated on adaptation to an amphibious lifestyle.To examine the plausibility of this statement, we need to examine the fossil record.
Penguin Fossils and True History
The first remains of a fossil penguin were found in New Zealand in 1859, and T. H. Huxley published the finding as Palaeeudyptes antarcticus. Del Hoyo comments, This bone . . . shows the fusion of the tarsus and the metatarsus in a way peculiar to penguins, indicating that penguins have not changed substantially over the millennia.
There are 21 genera and 32 species of extinct penguins now known to science. The fossils of penguins are found as low as the Eocene rocks, which creationist paleontologists believe were laid down after birds and land animals left the Ark and multiplied on the earth. From this evidence scientists conclude, The late Eocene penguins were already completely incapable of aerial flight, fully adapted to aquatic flight and to upright, bipedal progression on land.
In other words, we have no evidence that penguins were ever fliers or descended from birds capable of flight. They were apparently swimmers from the start, unrelated to any flying birds. Evolutionists themselves state that no fossil has yet been found which sheds any light on these relationships.
Indeed, all known fossil penguins reflect characteristics that are found in the six living genera of penguins. Their basic body form has not changed.
So where did penguins come from? The Bible tells us in Genisis 1; 10-22 that God created all sea creatures and birds on Day 5 of the Creation Week.
The ancestors of the penguins were created on Day 5. They are distinctly birds, even though there is no indication they ever flew above the earth. Like all other birds, for example, they have feathered wings and reproduce on land, distinguishing them from the great sea creatures. They also fly through the water, using a winged mechanism unlike any other swimming creature (i.e., marine mammals and fishes).
It is possible, given their unique characteristics that evidently have not changed over recorded time, that penguins comprise a distinct bird kind. Although we cannot be dogmatic about this, we can be dogmatic about the fact that the penguin design is a very good one!
Anyways, the point was that the Kook actually addressed your comments directly, rather than OMGLOLZWalloftextofmassiveignorance-ing you. Why you and not anyone else? You have asserted a faith position that he feels he can openly attack and disparage... He cannot defend his scientific notions, because they are contradictory nonsense and he knows it... but his inerrant interpretation of the Bible? Different story.
