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Coelacanth Misconception

Up until 70 years ago, evolutionists had a fossil
fish which they considered "the ancestor of land

animals". Scientific developments, however, put
an end to all evolutionist claims about this fish.

he absence of intermediate form fossils between fish
and amphibians is a fact evolutionists also admit to
T today. However, until 70 years ago, it was accepted
THE END OF that a fossil fish called the coelacanth was an outright intermediate form. Evolutionists
THE MYTH
The coelacanth claimed that the coelacanth, which was estimated to be 410 million years of age, was a
lives! The team transitional form with a primitive lung, a developed brain, a digestive and a circulatory
that caught the system ready to function on land, and even a primitive walking mechanism. These
first living
coelacanth in the evolutionary interpretations were accepted as undisputed truth in scientific circles until
Indian Ocean on the end of the 1930's.
22 December, However, on December 22, 1938, a very interesting discovery was made in the Indian
1938, is seen here
with the fish. Ocean. A living member of the coelacanth family, previously presented as a transitional
form that had become extinct 70 million years ago, was caught! The discovery of a
"living" prototype of coelacanth undoubtedly gave evolutionists a severe shock. The
evolutionist paleontologist, J.L.B. Smith, said that he could not have been more surprised
if he had come across a living dinosaur. 28 In the following years, more than 200
coelacanths were caught in different parts of the world.
Living coelacanths revealed how far evolutionists could go in making up their imaginary
scenarios. Contrary to their claims, coelacanths had neither a primitive lung nor a large
brain. The organ that evolutionist researchers claimed to be a primitive lung turned out

IMAGINARY DRAWINGS AND A
REAL COELACANTH
Until a living specimen of it was found,
evolutionists presented the coelacanth as
the ancestor of "all land animals".
Drawings such as the above were
presented as fact and took their
place in textbooks. When a living
example of the fish was caught
(side picture), all these evolutionist
allegations were debunked.

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