Page 61 - A Definitive Reply to Evolutionist Propagand‪a

HARUN YAHYA

When they only had fossils
of Coelacanths, evolution-
ist paleontologists put for-
ward a number of Darwinist
assumptions regarding
them; however, when living
examples were found, all
these assumptions were
shattered.

evolutionists are making this error shows how quickly they have
forgotten their mistakes over the Coelacanth, which was discovered
to be living up until 65 years ago.
Up until the end of 1930s, evolutionists portrayed the Coelacanth
as an intermediate form. It was thought that the bones in the fins of
this 200-million-year-old fossil turned into feet, which carried the
creature when it moved onto the land. In 1938, however, they learnt
to their great surprise that Coelacanth was still living. On close ex-
amination, it was revealed that these fish caught by fishermen off
the coast of Madagascar had undergone no changes at all in the last
200 million years. Furthermore, the organ which evolutionists had
believed to be a primitive lung turned out to be nothing but a fat-
filled swimbladder. Moreover, a great many more Coelacanths were
caught shortly afterwards, and evolutionists had to abandon for-
ever the claim that the creature represented an intermediate form.
As can be seen from the Coelacanth example, as well as that of
Acanthostega, marine creatures with bone-like structures are por-
trayed as intermediate forms, not because they might have been
able to live on land, but because of evolutionists' prejudices.

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