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Paddle Fish
Period: Eocene
Age: 50 million years
Region: Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA
The paddle fish’s highly pronounced spatula-like mouth, its nose structure and the small fins along
most of the length of its body can be clearly seen in this 50-million-year-old fossil. The animal has
never changed in the intervening 50 million years, and never evolved. When he launched his theory
of evolution, Charles Darwin claimed that life forms evolved from one another by way of mutations;
yet the millions of fossils that have been unearthed show that life forms are not descended from one
another, and that they have remained the same since they were first created to the present day. The
scientist Stephen Jay Gould states how no passage between species is possible through mutations:
“A mutation doesn't produce major new raw material [DNA]. You don't make new species by mutating the
species.” (Stephen Jay Gould, "Is a New and General Theory of Evolution Emerging?", Lecture at Hobart &
William Smith Colleges, 4 February 1980)
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