"It's a bird, it's a plan, it's a Darwinist in a parachute"

Archaeopteryx Meets Its Younger Grandpa, and Other Flights of Fancy 10/24/2005

In this short post I want to give you a quote from an article, and then offer a few comments.

Quote;
'Sankar Chatterjee of the Texas Tech group remarked that “The biplane wing configuration was probably a very first experiment in nature,” paralleling the human design of flight.
“It is intriguing to contemplate that perhaps avian flight, like aircraft evolution, went through a biplane stage before the monoplane was introduced,” said Chatterjee. “It seems likely that Microraptor invented the biplane 125 million years before the Wright 1903 Flyer.”

Comments;
- I find it strange that most evolutionists don't see to understand the implications of what they say. Chatterjee personifies nature, then he has this phantom person conducting an experiment. This is ludicrous. Matter doesn't perform experiments; only persons do.... only intelligent agents. There are no experiments going on here. People like this are deluded when they think they see experiments going on. (Where would 'mother nature' get the government grant money for one thing :=) They're seeing things that don't exist; they're reading human ideas into the created order. They're literally seeing things if this is what they really believe. What they think they see is really an anthropomorphic illusion.

- Matter doesn't invent anything. Only intelligent agents invent things. Chatterjee has no right to use such language.

- CHatterjee makes the fallacious parallel of bird evolution and plane evolution; adding the error of equivocation to his error of personification. To compare evolution to design is the equivalent of comparing design to evolution; so in effect he's affirmed the basic claim of ID :=)

- If man were really an animal as C. suggests, the Wright brothers wouldn't have made an airplane they'd have turned themselves into an airplane :=) The fact men don't go about things this way is a refutation of the evolutionary idea.

- This isn't science; it's comic relief. To say the Microraptor invented the biplane is as silly as saying penguins invented the tuxedo.

Notes;
1. An article on this [Wright brothers upstaged! Dinos invented biplanes] can be found at Eureka Alert
2. Chatterjee deserves some kind of silliness award for his ridiculous persnifications.