Index Fossils 4 -- Science Disproves Evolution

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J.�L.�B. Smith, a well-known fish expert from South Africa, studied the first two captured coelacanths, nicknamed the coelacanth �Old Fourlegs� and wrote a book by that title in 1956. When dissected, did they have lungs and a large brain? Not at all (e). Furthermore, in 1987, a German team filmed six coelacanths in their natural habitat. They were not crawling on all fours (f).

Before living coelacanths were found in 1938, evolutionists dated any rock containing a coelacanth fossil as at least 70,000,000 years old. It was an index fossil. Today, evolutionists frequently express amazement that coelacanth fossils look so much like captured coelacanths�despite more than 70,000,000 years of evolution (g). If that age is correct, billions of coelacanths would have lived and died. Some should have been fossilized in younger rock and should be displayed in museums. Their absence implies that coelacanths have not lived for 70,000,000 years.

e. �The brain of a 90-pound coelacanth weighs less than 50 grains [0.11 ounces] �that is, no more than one 15,000th of the body weight. No present-day vertebrate that we know of has so small a brain in relation to its size.� � Millot, p.�39.

f. �I confess I�m sorry we never saw a coelacanth walk on its fins.� Hans Fricke, �Coelacanths: The Fish That Time Forgot,� National Geographic, Vol.�173, June 1988, p.�838.

�...we never saw any of them walk, and it appears the fish is unable to do so.�� Ibid., p.�837.

g. �Few creatures have endured such an immense span of time with so little change as coelacanths. The cutaway drawing of a present-day specimen seems almost identical with the 140-million-year-old fossil found in a quarry in southern West Germany. ... Why have coelacanths remained virtually unchanged for eons ... 30 million generations?� Fricke, p.�833. [Answer: They were fossilized a few thousand years ago, at the time of the flood.]

�Throughout the hundreds of millions of years the coelacanths have kept the same form and structure. Here is one of the great mysteries of evolution�that of the unequal plasticity of living things.� � Millot, p.�37.

�The coelacanths have changed very little since their first known appearance in the Upper Devonian.� A. Smith Woodward, as quoted by Thomson, Living Fossil, p. 70.

�What is even more remarkable is that in spite of drastic changes in the world environment, the coelacanths are still much the same organically as their ancestors....In the meantime, research is continuing...and will try to penetrate the secret of the adaptability which has enabled them to live through many geological eras under widely differing conditions without modifying their constitution.�� Millot, p.�39.

�...the coelacanths have undergone little change in 300 million years...�� Ommanney, p.�74.