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Figment of the Imagination
Figment of the Imagination

cause everybody knows what would happen to fish if they
emerged onto the land: They would die!
Have you ever been fishing? Just think! What would
happen if a fish took the bait and was hooked on your line

and you saved its life and brought it home to have a rest in
your backyard? As we have just said, it would die. If you
were to go fishing again, and this time caught many fish
and brought them all back to your backyard, then what

would happen? The same thing: they would all die!
Yet evolutionists refuse to agree. They say that one of the
fish in your backyard suddenly started changing while it
was waiting to die, and that it turned into a reptile and con-
tinued living! That is totally and completely impossible!

It can never be possible because there are a lot of dif-
ferences between fish and land creatures, and all of these
changes cannot just happen suddenly, by chance. Let us list
just a few of the things that fish would need to survive on

land:
1. Fish use gills to breathe in water. However, on land
they cannot breathe with their gills and so they would die if
they left the water. They would need to have lungs. Let us just

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