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ders, and caecilians:
There is no evidence of any Paleozoic amphibians combining the characteristics
that would be expected in a single common ancestor. The oldest known frogs, sala-
manders, and caecilians are very similar to their living descendants. 26
Until about fifty years ago, evolutionists thought that such a creature indeed existed.
This fish, called a Coelacanth, which was estimated to be 410 million years of age, was
put forward as a transitional form with a primitive lung, a developed brain, a digestive
and a circulatory system ready to function on land, and even a primitive walking mech-
anism. These anatomical interpretations were accepted as undisputed truth among sci-
entific circles until the end of the 1930's. The Coelacanth was presented as a genuine tran-
sitional form that proved the evolutionary transition from water to land.
However on December 22, 1938, a very interesting discovery was made in the Indian
Ocean. A living member of the Coelacanth family, previously presented as a transitional
form that had become extinct seventy million years ago, was caught! The discovery of a
"living" prototype of Coelacanth undoubtedly gave evolutionists a severe shock. The evo-
lutionist paleontologist J.L.B. Smith said that he could not have been more surprised if he
had come across a living dinosaur. 27 In the years to come, 200 Coelacanths were caught
many times in different parts of the world.
Living coelacanths revealed how far the evolutionists could go in making up their
imaginary scenarios. In contrary to claims, coelacanths had neither a primitive lung nor
a large brain. The organ that evolutionist researchers proposed as a primitive lung turned
out to be nothing but a lipid pouch. 28 Furthermore, the Coelacanth, which was intro-
duced as "a reptile candidate getting prepared to pass from sea to land", was in reality a
fish that lived in the depths of the oceans and never approached to within less than 180
metres of the surface. 29

TURTLES WERE
ALWAYS TURTLES

Just as the evolutionary theory cannot explain
basic groups of living things such as fish and
reptiles, neither can it explain the origin of the Turtle fossil aged 100 million years:
species within these groups. For example, tur- No different than its modern
tles, which is a reptilian species, appear in the counterpart. (The Dawn of Life, Orbis
Pub., London 1972)
fossil record all of a sudden with their unique
shells. To quote from an evolutionary source: "... by the middle of the Triassic Period
(about 175,000,000 years ago) its (turtle's) members were already numerous and in
possession of the basic turtle characteristics. The links between turtles and coty-
losaurs from which turtles probably sprang are almost entirely lacking"
(Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 1971, v.22, p.418)
There is no difference between the fossils of ancient turtles and the living members of this
species today. Simply put, turtles have not "evolved"; they have always been turtles since
they were created that way.