Page 63 - The Transitional Form Dilemma

HARUN YAHYA

The Australian lung fish, which evolutionists maintain is the ancestor of amphib-
ians. Yet there is no resemblance between these creatures’ lungs and those of land-
dwelling animals.

traces of a transition to such dynamic structures have been found in the
so-called ancestors proposed by evolutionists.
For the role of amphibian ancestor, evolutionists’ third candidates
are lungfish (from the Dipnoi family). These species can breathe air on
the surface as well as through their gills. However, the lung structure
they possess has no similarities at all to the lungs of land-dwelling crea-
tures.
These fishes’ skeletal structure is also very different to that of am-
phibians. For instance, there is no trace of legs in the fishes’ fin struc-
ture. Not only the backbone is very different, but so is the structure of

the internal organs. These animals would need to undergo enormous
changes in order to evolve into amphibians. As the pelvic bone formed,
for instance, the gills would have to be replaced with lungs, and the
ears and eyes would have to become capable of functioning in dry air.
No matter what species of fish evolutionists choose to regard as
the so-called ancestor of amphibians, the number of changes necessary
for a fish to develop into an amphibian is enormous. For that reason,
there would have to be an outlandish number of transitional links be-

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