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Darwinist scientists have made that confession, efforts are still being made to depict the Archaeopteryx
fossil as a transitional form in Darwinist publications. Jonathan Wells sets out the position:

Some biology textbooks continue to present Archaeopteryx as the classic example of a missing link. Mader’s
1998 Biology calls it “a transitional link between reptiles and birds,” and William Schraer and Herbert Stolte’s
1999 Biology: The Study of Life tells students that “many scientists believe it represents an evolutionary link

between reptiles and birds. 34

There can be no doubt that this stems from a desire to persist in this huge fraud. Because Darwinists
are unable to abandon their theories in the absence of any transitional forms, they instead try to produce
false ones. That explains the desperate and fraudulent attempts to keep Archaeopteryx on the agenda..

8. The idea that the “Coelacanth is an example of the transition

from sea to land” is a fraud

Even the discovery of a living dinosaur would have been less surprising. Because fossils show that the coela-
canth existed 150-200 million years before the appearance of the dinosaurs. The creature put forward by

many scientists as the ancestor of land-dwelling vertebrates, believed to have disappeared at least 70 million
years ago, had been found! 35

These words from a Darwinist, in the April 2003 issue of Focus magazine, describe the astonishment
at the discovery of a living Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), for years portrayed as a transitional form,
in today’s waters. Prior to 1938, Darwinists had made countless claims about the fossil Coelacanth, in-
terpreting its fins as “legs about to start walking” and a fossilized oil sac as “a primitive lung.” With all

this speculation about the fossil, they suggested that they had discovered a missing link.
The capture of a living Coelacanth at such a time came as a terrible disappointment to Darwinists. This
and more than 200 other living Coelacanths, the latest of which was caught in May 2007, totally discredited
all the Darwinist conjecture about the fossils. It was realized that the Coelacanth was an exceedingly complex

and highly developed bottom-dwelling fish, about 150 centimeters in length. In addition, the animals
showed no sign of change over 450 million years. To put it another way, its complexity today is the same as
it was 450 million years ago.
Following the scientific realization of these facts, the Coelacanth assumed its place as an example of

a living fossil, and all the claims about it being a transitional form were withdrawn. Darwinists lost yet
another fossil they had speculated about so much. Had this animal not been found in today’s seas, then,

The fact that the Coelacanth
is a perfect bottom-feeding
fish still alive today did away

with all the Darwinist specu-
lation on the subject.

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