One of the greatest problems for evolution is explaining abiogenesis.
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Evolutionary scientists label fossils with dates of millions of years, while creation scientists use the biblical timeline to date the fossils.
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What is a living fossil?
A living fossil is a creature—an animal or a plant—that was thought to be extinct but is found living or growing today. The coelacanth (see-luh-canth) fish is probably the most popular living fossil.
The coelacanth was named by Louis Agassiz in 1839 and was known from fossils in rock layers that evolutionists ultimately placed around 409 million years ago in the early Devonian sediments. From a biblical viewpoint, the Devonian rock layers are merely flood sediment in the earlier stages of the deluge that happened about 4,350 years ago.
Evolutionists also made the pronouncement that the coelacanth fish (coelacanth granulatus) went extinct about 65–70 million years ago since its fossils were no longer seen in any sediment above the Cretaceous. Evolutionists assumed that if something wasn’t buried in a layer anymore, then it had gone extinct, and therefore, no longer existed.
Even so, the coelacanth was hailed as a missing link that connected fish to amphibians in the evolutionary scenario. The evolutionary story is that fish evolved into amphibians by crawling out on land more and more. The coelacanth, which has some awkward-looking pectoral fins at the bottom of it, was seen as the prime candidate for stepping out on land in the early days of evolution; while some remained in the sea, others crawled out on land.
Thus, evolutionists used this evidence as the next great step in evolution, and this fish was hailed as a missing link on the road to evolution.
But then it happened.
In 1938, this evolutionary story shattered when living coelacanths were found thriving off the coast of Madagascar. So the coelacanth fish passed from being a missing link to a “living fossil.”
Living fossils demonstrate that there are problems with interpreting the fossil record as a completely ordered progression of organisms, over millions of years. They also have implications for actual or presumed extinct organisms in the fossil record.
Contrary to evolutionary dogma, the “hero of the plot” for living fossils is the fact that there haven’t been hundreds of millions of years or Darwinian evolution, there have been only a little over 6,000 years since creation and approximately 4,350 years since the flood.
Some of these creatures have only managed to dodge our discovery of them for the past few thousand years, but with increasing technology, including drones, submersibles, and robotic devices, we may find many more “living fossils” in the near future.
—Troy Lacey
A living fossil is a creature—an animal or a plant—that was thought to be extinct but is found living or growing today. The coelacanth (see-luh-canth) fish is probably the most popular living fossil.
The coelacanth was named by Louis Agassiz in 1839 and was known from fossils in rock layers that evolutionists ultimately placed around 409 million years ago in the early Devonian sediments. From a biblical viewpoint, the Devonian rock layers are merely flood sediment in the earlier stages of the deluge that happened about 4,350 years ago.
Evolutionists also made the pronouncement that the coelacanth fish (coelacanth granulatus) went extinct about 65–70 million years ago since its fossils were no longer seen in any sediment above the Cretaceous. Evolutionists assumed that if something wasn’t buried in a layer anymore, then it had gone extinct, and therefore, no longer existed.
Even so, the coelacanth was hailed as a missing link that connected fish to amphibians in the evolutionary scenario. The evolutionary story is that fish evolved into amphibians by crawling out on land more and more. The coelacanth, which has some awkward-looking pectoral fins at the bottom of it, was seen as the prime candidate for stepping out on land in the early days of evolution; while some remained in the sea, others crawled out on land.
Thus, evolutionists used this evidence as the next great step in evolution, and this fish was hailed as a missing link on the road to evolution.
But then it happened.
In 1938, this evolutionary story shattered when living coelacanths were found thriving off the coast of Madagascar. So the coelacanth fish passed from being a missing link to a “living fossil.”
Living fossils demonstrate that there are problems with interpreting the fossil record as a completely ordered progression of organisms, over millions of years. They also have implications for actual or presumed extinct organisms in the fossil record.
Contrary to evolutionary dogma, the “hero of the plot” for living fossils is the fact that there haven’t been hundreds of millions of years or Darwinian evolution, there have been only a little over 6,000 years since creation and approximately 4,350 years since the flood.
Some of these creatures have only managed to dodge our discovery of them for the past few thousand years, but with increasing technology, including drones, submersibles, and robotic devices, we may find many more “living fossils” in the near future.
—Troy Lacey