Page 51 - Atlas of Creation Volume 2

Harun Yahya

This coelacanth fossil, discovered in the
Solnhofen Formation in Germany, is 145
million years old.

The well known French evolutionist Dr. Jacques
Millot, who spent years studying the coelacanth,
described how many hid behind it as a lone
piece of evidence:

One of the great problems of evolution has
been to find anatomical links between the

fishes and their land-invading descen-
dants . . . For a long time evolutionists
were troubled by this major gap between
fishes and the amphibians. But the gap
has now been bridged by studies of an-

cient fishes, and this is where the coela-
canth comes in. 21
However, this evolutionist excitement was J. L. B. Smith, posing with the second coelacanth caught off the
Comora Islands in 1952.
short-lived, when a living coelacanth specimen
was captured by fishermen in 1938. This in-
flicted a terrible disappointment on evolution-
ists. James Leonard Brierley Smith, an

instructor in the Rhodes University Chemistry
Department and also honorary director of vari-
ous fish museums on the South Coast of
England, expressed his astonishment in the
face of this captured coelacanth:

Although I had come prepared, that first sight
hit me like a white-hot blast and made me feel

shaky and queer, my body tingled. I stood as if
striken to stone. Yes, there was not a shadow of
doubt, scale by scale, bone by bone, fin by fin, it
was true Coelacanth. 22

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