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Harun Yahya

COELACANTH

Age: 95 million years

Period: Cretaceous

Location: Haqel, Lebanon

In 1938, Darwinists suffered a terrible disappointment with the capture of a living
coelacanth, a fish they had long depicted as so-called evidence of the transition of ver-
tebrates from the sea to dry land. In the years that followed, some 200 coelacanths were
caught. In 1987, Professor Hans Fricke of the Max Planck Institute observed these

creatures in their natural habitat by descending to a depth of 200 meters off the East
African Comoro Islands, in a submarine named Geo. He observed that their bony fins
had no functional link to the limbs that permit walking in tetrapods (four-footed
animals).

The April 2003 issue of Focus magazine reported the findings from this research:

"The flexible fins had no similar functions to those in four-footed land vertebrates. These
allowed the creature to swim head-down and in all directions, even backwards." (Focus,
April 2003)

With its structures that have remained unchanged for 400 million years, the coelacanth
places evolutionists in a highly difficult position. Bear in mind, too, that continental
shifts have taken place over those 400 million years, during which the coelacanth never
changed at all.

It can be seen that evolutionists are in an utterly hopeless position. Moreover, the
coelacanth exhibits a profound gulf between the marine and terrestrial life forms,
between which the theory of evolution presumes a transitional link.

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