ANOTHER SCENARIO FOR THE MYTH OF FISH EVOLUTION; THE BBC’S “MISSING LINK FOUND” ERROR

The 3 May, 2005, edition of the BBC web site reported on fossil findings dating back to 450 million years ago. As a result of the research, carried out by Richard Aldridge of Leicester University, various findings were made which were claimed to be a continuation of fossils discovered 11 years previously. In this report, the BBC sought to present the fossil findings in question as evidence for the scenario of fish evolution, using Aldridge’s claims as its starting point.

These findings, based entirely on conjecture and offering no evidence whatsoever for the imaginary evolutionary process, are another example of Darwinist death throes. No proof was offered to show the contribution made by the fossils in the report in question to the subject of evolution. The article went no further than giving glad tidings about the finding of the long-awaited “missing link.”

You can find genuine scientific statements about the fossil findings in question and the scenario of fish evolution below.

The Grave Error to the Effect a Transitional Form Had Been Found

For an evolutionist, it is impossible to arrive at a conclusion by obtaining proof. That is because every discovery shows that evolution never happened, and evolutionists are subjected to severe disappointment each time. For that reason, therefore, evolutionists always start with the conclusions they came to long beforehand and then seek to find proof for them. Researcher Richard Aldridge starts out from a preconception this way, and has devoted all his attention to finding a fossil that might represent evidence of the imaginary evolution of fish. He had no hesitation about stating that that he was unable to scientifically describe as a fish fossil he discovered in the south of Africa in 1994 and that he named Nelson. Yet he still insisted on referring to this as a fish fossil. (1) He continued his research in the same area and combining the new fossil traces he discovered there 11 years later with his previous finding, he claimed that this represented an intermediate form.

First of all there is no evidence that these findings belong to a fish at all. Starting from the remains of soft tissue he found, Aldridge thought he had discovered an intermediate form between the phylum Cordata and fish. However, the fossil findings in his possession have no distinguishing features that might confirm the imaginary passage from an organism with no backbone to vertebrates. It would be a major transition for invertebrates, which have no skeleton and the hard parts of whose bodies are on the outside, to turn into fish, whose hard parts are in the middle of their bodies. Those fossil remains alleged to belong to intermediate forms need to be able to demonstrate that significant passage. However, Aldridge’s discoveries provide no evidence that might confirm this. Instead, the author makes do with repeating, four or five times, his claim that the sought-after intermediate fossil had been found.

The Fossil Fish That Make Fish Evolution Impossible

No matter how much Darwinists may speculate on this subject, we are still looking at a manifest truth that totally eliminates all claims regarding the subject. A fossil fish found in China in 1999 dates back 530 million years. That, 530 years ago, i.e. the Cambrian Period, is just when various specimens of complex structures suddenly appeared and when representatives of 28 of the 42 known animal phyla emerged with all their details. The fish fossil in question, discovered in the Chinese region of Chengjiang, where best preserved fossils from that period have been found proves that 530 million years ago vertebrates existed with all the features they possess today, fully formed. This shows that fish and invertebrates, (the latter claimed to be the forerunner of the former) appeared at the same time.

In the light of this, it is an out-and-out deception for evolutionists to stand up and allege that they had found an intermediate link approximately 100 million years younger than this fossil. This living thing, that existed fully formed and with all its component parts on Earth 530 million years ago, possesses complex features similar to present-day ones, and clearly never underwent any evolution at all. If evolutionists do set about finding an intermediate form then they should direct their attention to remains from 530 million years ago. However, all the pre-Cambrian fossils they find will be mere single-celled or simple multi-celled animals. Even Richard Dawkins, one of the most fanatical of present-day evolutionists was unable to avoid mentioning the extraordinary nature of that period and the dilemma which it posed for evolutionists:

“And we find many of them already in an advanced state of evolution, the very first time they appear. It is as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history. Needless to say, this appearance of sudden planting has delighted creationists..."(2)

The fact that a fish with all its complex features lived in such a period is important scientific evidence that will put an end to all debate over the issue. Fish have existed ever since the first complex organisms were seen on Earth, and were created in a moment with all their superior characteristics. The scientific evidence that proves creation against evolution has been set out in all clarity. All speculation on this issue is invalid. It is impossible for scientists like Aldridge or the BBC, one of their major news sources, to come up with any finding to alter that fact.

The Effort to Deceive the Reader with Conjecture

The fossil discoveries unearthed as a result of countless digs clearly show the existence of fossil fish dating back 530 million years and possessed of all their features. However, none of these countless excavations has ever turned up a single intermediate form with which to support the evolution scenario. Researchers such as Aldridge see nothing wrong in stating that the imaginary evolution of fish was a process that took place in stages and that this has been proven by the fossil record.

Evolutionists’ conjectural methods are no different. Constantly repeating something that is not actually true, suggesting that people do believe them, is the sole method to which Darwinists, who are left with no other way out, can resort. They employ this method persistently in every article, every case study and every report.

The fact is, however, that scientists’ statements conflict with the scientific evidence. Fossil findings provide no examples of an intermediate form. The imaginary “missing link,” sought for so many years, has not been found. There is not even a single fossil that might confirm the existence of the imaginary process known as evolution. Instead, they keep finding themselves looking at complex organisms, whose existence goes back millions of years, similar to present-day living things. The fact of creation is constantly being verified. They will keep resorting to their traditional methods for so long as they refuse to admit this truth. This vicious circle will thus continue. However, the mass of readers they seek to influence can clearly see the evidence and are aware of the facts. Therefore, evolutionists’ conjectural methods can have no effect on people capable of looking objectively and possessed of an open mind.

The BBC needs to wake up to these facts as quickly as possible and abandon evolutionists’ classic methods. Otherwise, this will damage the organisation’s prestige and damage people’s faith in the channel. We call on the BBC to report the news with these facts in mind from now on.

1 http://allafrica.com/stories/200504180608.html
2 Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, London: W. W. Norton 1986, p. 229