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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

Interestingly, the same structure exists in present-day whales, dolphins,
seals and turtles. Palette feet also increase their hydrodynamic effi-
ciency, since their very shape reduces water resistance. If the toes were
separated, this could not happen. The question of how Ichthyosaurs’
feet—or for that matter, the feet of sea turtles and marine mammals—
came into being by evolution is an unanswered
one. There is no evidence whatsoever of a transi-
tion to such a structure, from either fish fins or from the
feet of land-dwelling reptiles.
• Even Scientific American accepts that there was no gradual, pro-
gressive transition to a flipper of this kind, and goes on to say:
Indeed, analyses of ichthyosaur limbs reveal a complex evolutionary process in
which digits were lost, added and divided. 35
As we have seen, the alleged evolution of Ichthyosaurs’
palette feet shows no constant development
of the type that evolutionists expect.
Like all evolutionist publications, however,
Scientific American ignores this fact and with classic dem-
agoguery, makes the following statement so that its readers too should
ignore the truth:
Needless to say, evolution does not always follow a continuous,
directional path from one trait to another. 36

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A fossil crocodile with a reptile form

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