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Coelacanth Misconception
THE END OF THE MYTH
The coelacanth lives! The team that
caught the first living coelacanth in
the Indian Ocean on 22 December, 1938,
is seen here with the fish.
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Up until 70 years ago, evolutionists
had a fossil fish which they considered "the
ancestor of land animals". Scientific developments,
however, put an end to all evolutionist claims
about this fish.
The absence of intermediate
form fossils between fish and amphibians is a
fact evolutionists also admit to today. However,
until 70 years ago, it was accepted that a fossil
fish called the coelacanth was an outright intermediate
form. Evolutionists claimed that the coelacanth,
which was estimated to be 410 million years of
age, was a transitional form with a primitive
lung, a developed brain, a digestive and a circulatory
system ready to function on land, and even a primitive
walking mechanism. These evolutionary interpretations
were accepted as undisputed truth in scientific
circles until the end of the 1930's.
 IMAGINARY
DRAWINGS AND A REAL COELACANTH
Until a living specimen of it was found,
evolutionists presented the coelacanth
as the ancestor of "all land animals".
Drawings such as the above were presented
as fact and took their place in textbooks.
When a living example of the fish was
caught (side picture), all these evolutionist
allegations were debunked.
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However, on December 22, 1938,
a very interesting discovery was made in the Indian
Ocean. A living member of the coelacanth family,
previously presented as a transitional form that
had become extinct 70 million years ago, was caught!
The discovery of a "living" prototype
of coelacanth undoubtedly gave evolutionists a
severe shock. The evolutionist paleontologist,
J.L.B. Smith, said that he could not have been
more surprised if he had come across a living
dinosaur.28
In the following years, more than 200 coelacanths
were caught in different parts of the world.
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Before a living example of it was caught,
evolutionists believed that the coelacanth
had organs which were half-fin and half-foot
that enabled it to creep on land. When the
living coelacanth was examined, it was understood
that the fins of the fish had no such additional
function. |
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Evolutionists had claimed that the fish
had a primitive lung. However, the organ
that was supposed to be a primitive lung
turned out to be a lipid pouch. |
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It was asserted that the brain structure
of the coelacanth also resembled that of
land animals. However, it was revealed that
its brain was no different from that of
modern fish. |
Living coelacanths revealed
how far evolutionists could go in making up their
imaginary scenarios. Contrary to their claims,
coelacanths had neither a primitive lung nor a
large brain. The organ that evolutionist researchers
claimed to be a primitive lung turned out to be
nothing but a lipid pouch.29
Furthermore, the coelacanth, which was introduced
as "a reptile candidate getting prepared
to pass from sea to land", was in reality
a fish that lived in the depths of the oceans
and always stayed more than 180 metres below the
surface.30
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