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HARUN YAHYA

categories of fish appear suddenly in the fossil record, with no ancestors
behind them.

From Fish to Amphibians
From Fish to Amphibians
According to evolutionists, the ancestor of land-dwelling life
forms was some species of fish. They suggest that this imaginary crea-
ture, whose remains they have so far been unable to unearth, was forced
to live in shallow, muddy water because of drought. For this reason, its
descendants’ fins evolved into feet and their gills into lungs. They de-
veloped kidneys to remove their bodily wastes, and their skin acquired
features preventing it from losing moisture—and that the first amphib-
ian was the result.
Unless a fish underwent all these changes and more, it would be
unable to live on land, and would die within a few minutes at most.
Evolutionists nominate three different fish species as the ancestors
of amphibians. One of these is the famous “living fossil,” the coelacanth.
Due to the thickness of its fins and certain of its bony structures, this
species was for years portrayed as the ancestor of amphibians. In 1938,
however, when a living specimen was caught in the Indian Ocean, it
was realized that all the speculations that evolutionists had been engag-
ing in was incorrect. Some 200 other living coelacanths were caught in
the years that followed. When these were studied, it was clear that this
species’ soft tissues has no resemblance to amphibians’, that they were
not about to emerge onto land and that they swam in very deep waters,
not shallow ones. (For further details, see the chapter on "False
Transitional Forms.")
Since the coelacanth is now “extinct” as an the ancestor of amphib-
ians, the great majority of evolutionists today propose a replacement: a
group of fish from the Rhipidistia family. The fins of these fish contain
bones and tissue as thick as those in the Coelacanth. Due to these differ-
ent structures, evolutionists claim that legs first began to appear in this

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