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Figment of the Imagination
Figment of the Imagination

on land. As you can see, this is an absurd idea, because
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 continued
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

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