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                  Such life forms also existed in the  tely groundless scenario.
               past. Ichthyostega lived in the sea, like  Despite being an evolutionist, even
               dolphins, but that does not indicate that  Henry Gee, editor of the well-known
               it was a transitional forms. On the con-  magazine Nature, admitted the mistaken
               trary, it shows that they were an original  and biased attitudes adopted towards
               and stable species. Indeed, according to  Ichthyostega:
               the theory of evolution, there is no ratio-
                                                     A statement that Ichthyostega is a mis-
               nal basis to proposing them as transitio-  sing link between fishes and later tetra-
               nal forms at all.                     pods reveals far more about our prejudi-
                  All the supposedly transitional forms  ces than about the creature we are sup-
               referred to today are the result of such  posed to be studying. It shows how much
               distortions. According to evolutionists,  we are imposing a restricted view on rea-
               the first movement made using the feet  lity based on our own limited experience,
               was made by life forms resembling amp-  when reality may be larger, stranger, and
                                                     more different than we can imagine. 219
               hibians that walked on the floors of shal-
               low waters. These fish, which include  As his admission shows, there is not
               the Coelacanth, were for long described  a single piece of concrete evidence for
               as transitional forms that moved in such  any transition from water to land. This
               a way. Evolutionists claimed that the  came to light with the discovery of a li-
               Coelacanth evolved over the course of  ving Coelacanth and once again de-
               time and turned into Ichthyostega, an  monstrated that all the scenarios drea-
               amphibian. However, this was a comple-  med up by evolutionists were a fantasy.




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