Page 75 - The Transitional Form Dilemma

HARUN YAHYA

As we have seen, Ichthyosaurs possess exceedingly complex fea-
tures specially created to let them live in deep ocean waters. To enjoy
those specifications, a land-dweller must undergo many beneficial mu-
tations. Yet random chance cannot change every feature of a living crea-
ture in a planned manner and compatible with its specific
environment. Random coincidences cannot change a land-dwelling
creature’s toes, its vertebrae, the structure of its eyes and the way it
swims, nor the kind of designs necessary to enable it to live in deep
water.
Coincidence lacks the intelligence and intention to do this. Indeed,
the fossil record demonstrates that these reptiles came into being not
through phased coincidences, but in a single moment, with all their
complex and particular structures.
In their book Evolution of the Vertebrates, Colbert and Morales say
this about these creatures’ origin:
The Ichthyosaurs, in many respects the most highly specialized of the marine
reptiles, appeared in early Triassic times. Their advent into the geologic history
of the reptiles was sudden and dramatic; there are no clues in pre-Triassic
sediments as to the possible ancestors of the Ichthyosaurs . . . The basic
problem of Ichthyosaur relationships is that no conclusive evidence can be
found for linking these reptiles with any other reptilian order. 37