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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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