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tionists. The evolutionist paleontologist
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that evolutionist researchers had thought
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in Nature magazine:
tually nothing more than an oil sac in its
The discovery of [living specimen of] Lati-
body. 84 Moreover, it was also realized
meria raised hopes of gathering direct in-
that the Coelacanth, which had been de-
formation on the transition of fish to amp-
picted as a amphibian-to-be preparing to
hibians, for there was then a long-held be-
emerge from the water, actually lived in
lief that coelacanths were close to the an-
deep ocean waters and hardly ever rose
cestry of tetrapods. . . .But studies of the
to above 180 meters (590 feet). 85 anatomy and physiology of Latimeria have
At this news, the popularity of the found this theory of relationship to be wan-
Coelacanth among evolutionist publica- ting and the living coelacanth's reputation
tions suddenly waned. An evolutionist as a missing link seems unjustified. 86
paleontologist by the name of Peter L.
As his admission shows, no interme-
Forey made this admission in an article
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