The Kiwi and Evolutionary Claims
The Kiwi and Evolutionary Claims…
Evolutionists claim that the kiwi has vestigial wings that are useless and functional, and therefore they are a vestigial organ that bears witness to its evolution, which deprived it of a function it performed in the kiwi’s previous ancestors. We do not need to say at the outset that this is a philosophy and not a science because it falls within circular reasoning with the existence of a premise that assumes a functional value in the ancestors and starting in reasoning from here, and the unjustified interpretation of sense.
And so on and so forth, many shameful things in reasoning in general. Anyway, saying that the kiwi’s wings are useless and have no function is also a claim based on the fallacy of appealing to ignorance because lack of knowledge is not knowledge of nothingness, and our lack of knowledge of the function of the kiwi’s wings does not mean that they have no function. In addition, our information about the kiwi is very little, almost non-existent, especially in the field related to physiology. According to New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC), which is responsible for conserving and studying the kiwi in New Zealand (the kiwi’s home), our knowledge of the kiwi is so terribly poor that even entire southern species have gone unstudied.
Department of Conservation ,Fiordland kiwi diaries: Catching the mysterious tokoeka,05/09/2017
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Fiordland kiwi diaries: Catching the mysterious tokoeka |
Having chosen a site that would work for our study, we need to catch some adult kiwi and attach radio transmitters to their legs.
This is because it is an endangered species, as the number of individuals is very small and they are found in limited places confined to New Zealand, so that the spotted kiwi birds are only known on two islands on both sides of Cook Strait, D’Urville Island (173°50’E; 40050’S) and Kapiti Island (174°55’E; 40°51’S).
Williams, G.R., and Given, D.R., 1981. The Red Data Book of New Zealand, p. 24. Nature Conservation
Council, Wellington.
:
J.N. Jolly (1989) A field study of the breeding biology of the little spotted kiwi
(Apteryx owenii) with emphasis on the causes of nest failures, Journal of the Royal Society of
New Zealand, 19:4, 433-448 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03036758.1989.10421846
The atheist who accuses you of having no function in kiwi wings is actually using the gaps argument. He found a species about which our knowledge is scant and tried to exploit this scarcity to prove the total absence of a function. Rational people do not need such foolish proofs.
Many of the wings of birds were considered for a long time to be useless and atrophied under the principle of “flyless, useless” and then their function was proven with the most recent discoveries. These functions are integrated with their systems and achieve an amazing organic unity. We mention two examples of them:
The ostrich uses its wings to achieve balance and provide control while running (especially when turning).
Chickens ـــــ> use their wings to maintain balance and thermoregulation ـــــ
It is not unlikely that the wings of kiwi birds will join the ranks and catch up with those who came before them, as they are in the same position that evolutionists placed the wings of ostriches, chickens, and other non-flying birds before them.