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A coelacanth Macropomoides orientalis from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage
(100 million years ago) from Hjoula, Byblos, Lebanon. Fossil Width/Height 15 cm.
Fossil No.: SF0816. Harun Yahya Collection.
http://en.harunyahya.net/coelacanthfossils-pictures-of-fossils/
Up to 1938, it was believed that coelacanth fossils represented the solution to a
serious problem for evolutionists, who needed evidence documenting the
imaginary emergence of living things from the sea onto dry land. They therefore
took fossils of the coelacanth, which they believed was well suited to this
scenario, and began making propaganda regarding them. They interpreted the
animal’s fins as ‘feet about to walk’ and another unidentified organ as ‘a
primitive lung.’ Yet striking proof soon emerged that none of these
interpretations had any validity at all. The capture by fisherman of a living
coelacanth in 1938 came as a terrible disappointment to evolutionists. James
Leonard Brierley Smith, a professor in the Rhodes University Chemistry Faculty,
expressed his amazement in these words: ‘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 stricken to stone. Yes, there was not a shadow of
doubt, scale by scale, bone by bone, fin by fin, it was a true Coelacanth’
(Samantha Weinberg, 2001). Detailed examinations were conducted of the
coelacanth’s structure and internal organs, which had no primitive features as
had been imagined and bore no intermediate-form characteristics of any
imaginary primitive forebear. The structure that evolutionists imagined to be a
primitive lung was actually a swim bladder filled with fat in the creature’s body.
In addition, this creature, depicted as a prospective reptile preparing to emerge
onto dry land, was actually a bottom-dwelling fish inhabiting deep waters and
not rising above depths of 180 meters. Therefore, according to Dr. Millot, who
conducted the investigation, this life form, which should have represented the
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