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tran si tion be tween in ver te brates— emerged sud den ly and with all their
lack ing skel e tons and the hard parts dif fer ent struc tures in tact. Fish were
of whose bod ies are on the out side— cre at ed in a sin gle mo ment, with no
and fish, whose hard parts act as ev o lu tion a ry proc ess be hind them.
sup ports in the mid dle of their bod - Allah is the All-Powerful Creator.
ies, should have left be hind a vast
num ber of fos sil ized in ter me di ate
forms. Yet all the dif fer ent cat e go ries ORIGIN OF THE FLIES
of fish ap pear sud den ly in the fos sil One ex pla na tion of fered for the
record, with no fore run ners or or i gin of birds is the cur so ri al the o -
"prim i tive" ver sions. ry, ac cord ing to which rep tiles' fore -
For 140 years, ev o lu tion ists have arms de vel oped in to wings as they
been comb ing the fos sil stra ta in need ed speed in their at tempts to
their search for these im ag i nary in - catch in sects. This the o ry lacks any
ter me di ate forms. Although mil lions sci en tif ic ev i dence. Moreover, in -
of in ver te brate fos sils and mil lions sects are def i nite ly able to fly, which
of fish fos sils have been dis cov ered, means that ev o lu tion ists face the
no one has found even a sin gle in ter - prob lem of the or i gin of in sects. (See
me di ate form. In an ar ti cle ti tled The Cursorial Theory.)
"Evolution of the Lung and the Flies emerge al so sud den ly and
Origin of Bony Fishes: A Casual with their own unique struc tures in
Relationship," the ev o lu tion ist pa le - the fos sil record. For ex am ple, a
on tol o gist Gerald T. Todd sets out great many drag on fly fos sils from
the fol low ing ques tions that dem on - the Pennsylvanian pe ri od have been
strate ev o lu tion ists' de spair: dis cov ered, all iden ti cal to present-
All three sub di vi sions of the bony fish - day spec i mens.
es first ap pear in the fos sil record at ap - The in ter est ing fact here is that
prox i mate ly the same time . . . How did both drag on flies and flies ap pear at
they orig i nate? What al lowed them to the same time as spe cies of wing less
di verge so wide ly? How did they all
in sects. This in val i dates the hy poth -
come to have heavy ar mor? And why is
e sis that wing less in sects grad u al ly
there no trace of ear li er, in ter me di ate
de vel oped wings.
forms? 98
R. Wootton and C. Ellington
The fos sil record shows that just
write on the sub ject in an ar ti cle in
like oth er liv ing class es, fish
the book Biomechanics in Evolution:
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