Has evolutionism become a leading religion?

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Originally Posted by pelathais

The time frame involved would have been around 171 years, the time since Darwin's voyage and observations in the Galapagos Islands. That would represent at least 150 generations of finches reaching maturity and breeding young of their own.

The quote about "scales" developing into feathers is a dated "guess" that the person you quoted was honest enough to admit that they were postulating and not surmising an observation.

If you have access to a school's subscription, check out this article:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12442169

The development of feathers was NOT due to scales of skin on the surface; rather it it was due to developments in the expression of genes in the stem cells beneath the skin.

There's more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather#Evolution

How about this? Every time you quote a source like "ABC News" as being authoritative on matters of evolution I will quote Benny Hinn as being a representative example of your religious theology?

Fair enough?

By faith you believe new structures and new information was added to the genome. Can you prophecy any more reptiles gaining feathers?