Creationists Foiled by the "Fishapod"
10 Apr 2006
Isn’t it amazing what today’s scientists can deduce from a mere rock or dust particle? Do you remember the Genesis space capsule? Scientists assured us that this important space mission, designed to gather solar atoms, would eventually enable them to explain the origin of the universe. Unfortunately, the space capsule crashed upon its return to the earth. Its parachute malfunctioned due to the fact that it had been put in backward. Now I don’t know about you, but as far as I’m concerned, scientists who can’t figure out which way to put in a parachute have no chance of figuring out the origin of the universe.
Despite the Genesis debacle, scientists are now reporting that they have solved the mystery of how planets form around a star born in a supernova explosion. According to a report in the journal Nature, NASA scientists have detected swirling, dusty disk of debris orbiting a pulsar—a dead star—13,000 light-years from the earth. This dusty debris swirling around the pulsar, which supposedly collapsed in a supernova explosion about 100,000 years ago, is touted by scientists as the metal-rich material from which planetary systems are spawned. Granted, no planetary formation was detected by NASA scientists, but, as the scientific community always alleges whenever there is an absence of evidence to support their hypothesis, it will eventually become detectable, give or take a couple of gazillion years.
Now we come to the big scientific news of late. A group of scientists, led by University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin, are claiming to have discovered evolution’s “missing link” between fish and land animals. As reported in the journal Nature, Shubin’s research team discovered fossils of a 375-million-year-old fish in the Canadian Arctic, 600 miles from the North Pole. Although the well-preserved skeletons are undoubtedly of a fish with fins and scales, scientists believe that they can also detect traits that suggest this fish evolved into an amphibian, which evolved into a reptile, which evolved into a mammal, which evolved into a man. According to Dr. Michael J. Novacek, this “fishapod,” as the scientists have dubbed the newly discovered fossil remains, is all that is needed “to show that the creationists are flatly wrong.”
Well, there you have it; scientists have discovered a rock that disproves the existence of the Rock of Ages. Yet, before we throw our Bibles away, let’s remember a similar claim made by evolutionists several years ago. The Coelacanth, discovered in fossil remains believed by scientists to be 400 million years old, was once touted by evolutionists as the “missing link” between fish and land animals. This prehistoric creature was believed to have possessed both lungs and gills, as well as lobbed-fins and a skeletal and muscular system that enabled it to walk on either the ocean floor or dry land.
Today, thanks to the fact that hundreds of them have been caught off the coast of South Africa, the Coelacanth has been nicknamed “the living fossil.” This so-called living fossil has not only given evolution a black eye, but left evolutionists scratching their heads for an explanation to why the Coelacanth failed to evolve into an amphibian and has remained virtually unchanged for the past 400 million years. Of course, the Coelacanth will eventually evolve, evolutionists assure us, just give it a gazillion years or two.
I’m convinced that the only gap in evolution is the one between the ears of all who adhere to it? Likewise, I’m convinced that this is a gap that most evolutionists will never discover until it is eternally too late. Unlike evolution, evolutionists don’t have gazillions of years to be proven right. They only have this short lifetime to get right with their Creator who they repudiate with their cockamamie theory.
Don Walton
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