A fishy tale: transition from water to land

Evolutionists assume that the sea invertebrates thatappear in the
Cambrian stratum somehow evolved into fish in tens of million years.
However, just as Cambrian invertebrates have no ancestors, there are
no transitional links indicating that an evolution occurred between
these invertebrates and fish. It should be noted that invertebrates
and fish have enormous structuraldifferences. Invertebrateshave hard
tissues outsidetheir bodies, whereas fish are vertebrates that have
hard tissues inside. Such an enormous "evolution" event ought to have
been supported by billions of transitional forms displaying the
intervening changes.
Evolutionists have been digging fossil strata for about 140 years
looking for these hypothetical forms, they have found millions of
invertebrate fossils and millions of fishfossils; yet nobody has ever
found even one thatis midway between them.
An evolutionist paleontologist, Gerald T. Todd admits this fact in an
article titled "Evolution of the Lung and the Origin of Bony Fishes" :
"All three subdivisions of the bony fishes first appear in the fossil
record at approximately the same time. They are already widely
divergent morphologically, and they are heavily armored.How did they
originate? What allowed them to diverge so widely? How did they all
come to have heavy armor? And why is there no trace of earlier,
intermediate forms?"
The evolutionary scenario goes one step further and argues that fish
evolved from invertebrates, then transformed into amphibians. But this
scenario also lacks evidence. There is not even a single fossil
verifying that a half-fish/half-amphibian creature has ever
existed.This fact is confirmed)albeit reluctantly( by a well-known
evolutionist authority, Robert L. Carroll, who is the authorof
Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution as: "We have no intermediate
fossils between rhipidistian fish)his favourite 'ancestors' of
tetrapods( and early amphibians." Two evolutionist paleontologists,
Colbert and Morales, comment onthe three basic classes of amphibians –
frogs, salamanders, and caecilians:
"There is no evidence of any Paleozoic amphibian combining the
characteristics that would be expected in a single common ancestor.
The oldest known frogs, salamanders and caecilians are very similarto
their living descendants."
Until about fifty years ago, evolutionists thought that such a
creature indeed existed. This fish, called a Coelacanth, which was
estimated to be 410 million years of age, was put forward as 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 anatomical interpretations were
accepted as undisputed truth among scientific circles until the end of
the 1930s. The Coelacanthwas presented as a genuine transitional form
that proved the evolutionary transition from water to land.
However, on December 22, 1938, a very interesting discovery wasmade in
theIndian Ocean. A living member of the Coelacanth family, previously
presented as atransitional from 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. In the
years to come, 200 Coelacanths were caught many times in different
parts of the world.
Living Coelacanths revealed how far the evolutionists could go in
making up their imaginary scenarios. Contrary to claims, Coelacanths
had neither a primitive lung nor a large brain. The organ that
evolutionist researchers proposed as a primitive lung turned out to be
nothing but a lipid pouch. 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 oceans and
never approached a distance of less than 180 meters from the surface.
Why Transition From Water to Land is Impossible
Evolutionists claim that one day, a species dwelling in water somehow
stepped onto land and was transformed into a land-dwelling species.
There are a number of obvious facts that render such a transition impossible:
1. Weight-bearing: Sea-dwelling creatures have no problem in bearing
their own weight in the sea.
However, most land-dwelling creatures consume 40 percent of their
energy just in carrying their bodies around. Creatures making the
transition from water to land would, at the same time, have had to
develop newmuscular and skeletal systems )!( to meet this energy need,
and this could not have come about by chance mutations.
2. Heat Retention: On land, the temperature can change quickly and
fluctuates over a wide range. Land-dwelling creatures possess a
physical mechanism that can withstand such great temperature changes.
However, in the sea, the temperature changes slowly and within a
narrower range. A living organism with a body system regulated
according to the constantsea temperature, would need to acquire a
protective system to ensure minimum harm from the temperature changes
on land. It is preposterous to claim that fish acquired such a system
by random mutations as soon as theystepped onto land.
3. Water: Since it is essential for metabolism, water needs to be used
economically due to its relative scarcity on land. For instance, the
skin has to be able to permit a certain amount of water loss, while
preventing excessive evaporation simultaneously. That is why
land-dwelling creatures experience thirst, something the sea-dwelling
creatures do not do. For this reason, the skin of sea-dwelling animals
is not suitable for a non-aquatic habitat.
4. Kidneys: Sea-dwelling organisms discharge waste materials,
especially ammonia, by means of their aquatic environment. On land,
water has to be used economically. This is why these living beings
have a complex excretory system comprising the kidneys and other
organs. Thanks to the kidneys, ammonia is stored by being converted
into urea and the minimum amount of water is used during its
excretion. In addition, new systems are needed to support the kidney's
functioning. In short, for the passage of organismsfrom water to land
to have occurred, living things without a kidney would have had to
develop a kidney system all at once.
5. Respiratory system: Fish "breathe" by taking in oxygen dissolved in
water that they pass through their gills. They cannot live for more
thana few minutes out of water. In order to surviveon land, they would
haveto acquire a perfect lung system all of a sudden.
It is most certainly impossible that all these dramatic physiological
changes could have happened in the same organism at the same time, and
all by chance.