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Harun Yahya

entists agreed that this organ is responsible for detecting electromagnetic currents. The fact that this perfect
organ is present in even the most ancient coelacanth fossils, together with its other complex structures, gives
rise to a difficulty that evolutionists are unable to resolve.
The problem was described as follows in Focus magazine:

According to fossils, fish emerged some 470 million
years ago. The coelacanth emerged 60 million
years after that. It is astonishing that this crea-
ture, which would be expected to possess
very primitive features, actually has a most
complex structure. 32

For evolutionists expect a gradual evolu-
tionary process. The appearance of the coela-

canth with its complex structures, at a time when
they expect fictitious primitive life forms to have existed, is of course
astonishing. However, for rational people—able to comprehend that God has cre-
ated all living things and their complex structures in the form and at the time of
His choosing—there is nothing at all surprising about it. The flawless specimens
created by God are all means whereby we can appreciate His might and power.

A coelacanth caught and frozen in 1966 provided new information about
the animal's blood. Apart from the coelacanth, all bony fish (Osteichthyes)
meet their water requirements by drinking sea water and expelling the ex-
cess salt from their bodies. The coelacanth's system, however, resembles that

in cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), which include the shark. The shark
converts the ammonia released as the result of the breaking down of pro-
teins into urea, and maintains a level of urea in its bloodstream that would
be lethal to human beings. It adjusts the level of these substances in its blood
according to the salinity of the water around it. Since the blood assumes an
isotonic level with the sea water around it (since the internal and external os-

motic pressures are equalized, achieving the same intensity), no water is lost
to the outside.
It was revealed that the coelacanth's liver possesses the enzymes necessary
to manufacture urea. In other words, it has unique blood properties not found
in any other members of its class and that emerged only tens of millions of years

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later in sharks—members of an entirely different classification. All this goes to
show that the coelacanth, portrayed as the greatest link in the supposed evolution
of living things, refutes all evolutionist claims, as do countless specimens still living
today.
This example clearly demonstrates the kind of wide-ranging propaganda that evolu-
tionists are capable of, based on a single fossil, and how they are able to disseminate that

deception with no concrete evidence. Even after the capture of a living coelacanth, notice that
they still did not abandon their claims, but continued looking in the living specimen for "a fin
undergoing changes to permit walking." They found no evidence to the effect that the coelacanth,
whose complex features clearly show it to have been created, was an intermediate form.
They sought to produce evidence against God, but He eliminated all their false proofs. What there

is instead, is proof of an immaculate creation.

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