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Harun Yahya

DIFFERENT EGGS

One of the inconsistencies in the amphibian-reptile evolution sce-
nario is the structure of the eggs. Amphibian eggs, which develop in
water, have a jelly-like structure and a porous membrane, whereas rep-
tile eggs, as shown in the reconstruction of a dinosaur egg on the left, are
hard and impermeable, in order to conform to conditions on land. In order for
an amphibian to become a reptile, its eggs would have to have coincidentally turned into perfect reptile eggs,
and yet the slightest error in such a process would lead to the extinction of the species.

origin of the amniotic egg and the amphibian – reptile transition is just another of the major vertebrate divi-
sions for which clearly worked out evolutionary schemes have never been provided. Trying to work out, for
example, how the heart and aortic arches of an amphibian could have been gradually converted to the reptil-

ian and mammalian condition raises absolutely horrendous problems. 64
Nor does the fossil record provide any evidence to confirm the evolutionist hypothesis regarding the ori-
gin of reptiles.

Robert L. Carroll is obliged to accept this. He has written in his classic work, Vertebrate Paleontology and
Evolution, that "The early amniotes are sufficiently distinct from all Paleozoic amphibians that their specific
ancestry has not been established." 65 In his newer book, Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution, pub-
lished in 1997, he admits that "The origin of the modern amphibian orders, (and) the transition between

early tetrapods" are "still poorly known" along with the origins of many other major groups. 66
The same fact is also acknowledged by Stephen Jay Gould:

No fossil amphibian seems clearly ancestral to the lineage of fully terrestrial vertebrates (reptiles, birds,
and mammals). 67

THE SEYMOURIA MISTAKE
Evolutionists at one time claimed that the Seymouria fossil on
the left was a transitional form between amphibians and rep-
tiles. According to this scenario, Seymouria was "the primitive
ancestor of reptiles." However, subsequent fossil discoveries
showed that reptiles were living on earth some 30 million
years before Seymouria. In the light of this, evolutionists had
to put an end to their comments regarding Seymouria.

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