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old, was touted in evolutionist sources as
the transitional form between fish and
amphibians. But the fact that this fish,
still alive and anatomically unchanged
was caught in the Indian Ocean invalida-
ted these evolutionist claims. (See Co-
elacanth.)
In the evolutionist scenario, the se-
cond stage is the evolution of amphibi-
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ans to reptiles and their movement from A A tropical salamander r
the water to the land. But there is no so-
lid fossil discovery to support this claim.
on. How this switch could have sud-
On the contrary, there remain very great
denly occurred cannot be explained by
physiological and anatomical differen-
the evolutionist mechanisms of natural
ces between amphibians and reptiles.
selection and mutation.
For example, take the structure of the
Again, the fossil record leaves the
eggs of the two different species. Amp-
origins of reptiles with no evolutionist
hibians lay their eggs in water. Their
explanation. The noted evolutionist pale-
eggs have a very permeable, transparent
ontologist, Robert L. Carroll, admits this
membrane and a gelatin-like consistency
in an article entitled “Problems of the
that allows them to develop in water. But
Origin of Reptiles”:
because reptiles lay their eggs on the
ground, they are designed for a dry cli- Unfortunately not a single specimen of
mate. Reptile eggs are amniotic with a an appropriate reptilian ancestor is
strong rubbery shell that admits air, but known prior to the appearance of true
reptiles. The absence of such ancestral
keeps water out. For this reason, the flu-
forms leaves many problems of the amp-
id needed by the young is stored within
hibian-reptilian transition unanswe-
until they hatch.
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If amphibian eggs were laid on the
ground, they would soon dry out, and the The same fact is admitted by the late
embryos inside would die. This poses a evolutionist paleontologist, Stephen Jay
problem for any evolutionist explanation Gould, of Harvard University: “No fos-
of how reptiles evolved in stages from sil amphibian seems clearly ancestral to
amphibians: For the very first amphibi- the lineage of fully terrestrial vertebra-
ans to begin living entirely on land, their tes (reptiles, birds, and mammals)." (Se-
eggs would have had to transform into e Movement from Water to land,
amniotic eggs within a single generati- the.) 19
Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)