>>4933699
>all those differentiated flight feathers
those aren't flight feathers

mystery solved, you don't know what flight feathers are.
nobody here does.

>>4933838
pennaceous feathers had to evolve BEFORE flight could, meaning bird ancestors were flightless and had pennaceous feathers on the arms. Weird the creationist OP doesn't understand this. Organs have to evolve BEFORE they become fully useful. It's one of the great mysteries of evolution.

also quill knobs are useless on plumes. They only make sense if the feathers supported body weight. Meaning raptors had pennaceous feathers on the arms, but probably not flight feathers.

OP doesn't know the difference between flight feathers and pennaceous feathers, but he's got bigger problems if he doesn't understand that flight feathers had to evolve BEFORE flight could happen. Probably long before.

flight feathers and flight didn't just magically appear at the same time. That's creationism.
Evolution says one of them had to evolve first, and it was useless for its current role when it first evolved. The blows OP's tiny little mind.

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