Under the microscope it is seen to be even more remarkable. Under higher magnification, each barbule is found to be equipped with hooks. These catch in the barbules forward of them, so that the whole structure is linked into a single vane, resistant to the air. Actually, feathers come in two models. Their understanding of origins excludes any possibility of purposeful design in the construction of complex components of animals and plants.
Evolution has no direction, no goal, no intelligence and no meaning.
Two comments can be made on this. First, Darwin himself recognised that God's creative design is not compatible with the idea of evolution by natural selection - because evolution is wasteful and undirected. Consequently, the evolutionary claims are dogmatic, deductive and philosophical. They should not be accepted as the result of scientific investigation. Design in the living world which has been rediscovered and used by man is always of interest.