*Knock me over with a feather!*
Let me get on the phone with Nature. You have upended 160 years of biology, paleontology, botany and geology with that sentence! Oh wait... No scientist has ever said that dogs “evolved” into birds. In fact, they would also all agree that “dogs make dogs.”
You said - Since you are well-versed in dogs, here’s a simple quiz:
What’s this?
And this?
And this?
And this?
And those are all living today. Imagine the variety of all those extinct animals!
What is it you hope to prove by showing photos of the variety of animals that are presnet? Besides showing an example of the creative perfection of the Lord. They do nothing to prove anything of the process you seem to have faith in.
Man, this argument is classic.
1)
Hey! Look at how all these dogs are different!
This proves evolution is true [when you start from an evolutionary assumption]. (again, this is “equivocation”)
2)
Hey! Look at how all these dogs are different!
This proves that the dog kind was created with the capacity for huge variety [when you start from a creationist assumption].
The difference is that person two recognizes his own presupposed assumptions and he recognizes person one’s as well.
Person one doesn’t recognize that he has any presuppositions and concludes that his opponent is just an idiot for not seeing it his way.