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The Carboniferous Period (354 to 290 million years ago)

Also known as the Coal Age, this period is subdivided into two separate periods, the Lower
Carboniferous or Mississippian and the Upper Carboniferous or Pennsylvanian. Land rising and falling,
resulting from collisions between continents, and rises and falls in sea levels linked to the polar ice caps

were significant events that shaped the world during this period. Many fossils of marine and terrestrial
life forms date back to the Carboniferous Period. The coelacanth, which Darwinists for many years
depicted as a supposedly intermediate form, is still alive today, proving the invalidity of this claim. It has

undergone no change over the course of millions of years and has never undergone "evolution." Contrary
to Darwinists' claims that the coelacanth was a "missing link" that corroborated evolution, it is actually an
example of a "living fossil" that totally refutes evolution. The coelacanth had been the subject of countless
forms of evolutionist speculation, but its emergence as a living fossil presents evolutionists with a major
dilemma.

A Coelacanth fossil,
410 million years old

Coelacanth of our day

355- to 295-million-
year-old spider fossil

The Permian Period (290 to 248 million years ago)

At the end of the Permian Period, another mass disappearance took place that represented the final
end of the Paleozoic Era. The fossil record shows that during this huge disappearance, 90%-95% of living
species became extinct. Nonetheless, some Permian life forms have survived right down to the present
day. Fossil specimens from the Permian such as dragonflies and spiders prove that evolution never took

place at any time in the past.

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