birds. Evolution can be described as the information-gaining process that has led bacteria to evolve into birds. Evolution is also described in terms of losing new functions after they originally develop. These apparently contrary forms of evolution, gaining and losing information, highlight the plastic nature of the theory as it bends to accommodate any new evidence. The apparent loss and gain of functions make the evolutionary story contain a multitude of “naturalistic miracles”— if such things can exist. The evolution of dinosaurs into birds is no different from the evolution of flightless ostriches from some flying ancestor.
