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Evolutionists have
touted Tiktaalik as, at least in their minds, an indisputable form between fish
and land animals but another paleontological discovery may disqualify it from
being an ancestor of terrestrial animals.
Back in 2010, the
footprints of an unidentified terrestrial animal, believed to be some sort of
amphibian, were discovered in South East Poland, dating back to 395 million
years ago [1] which would place
the existence of terrestrial animals in the Devonian period, which, according
to the evolutionary geologic time scale, would place the existence of land
animals at the same time as fish, including the so-called transitional forms
from which they were supposed to have evolved.
Science.org reported
that the tracks showed “no signs of dragging tails or bellies”, theorizing that
“the animals' bodies and tails were floating in shallow water when the four
limbs made the impressions” [2] though the tracks themselves suggest that the tetrapods
that made them might have been fairly advanced.
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These so-called
transitional forms between fish and land animals are called Elpistostegids. They stand apart from other fish in that
their lobed-finned, meaning that they have muscular limb-buds within their
fins, supported by bone. One living example includes the Coelacanth which was once thought to be an extinct transitional
form until living specimens were discovered in the Indian ocean and which by
all accounts are just another fish.
Another example is the batfish, which by
all rights should also be included among the order of Elpistostegalia, because, like the coelacanth, they also possess pelvic or lobed fins, but unlike the coelacanth which uses its fins for swimming as any other fish, batfish use their pelvic fins to walk along the sea floor. [3]
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These pelvic fins
function as legs for this fish except that the legs end in a fin instead of a
foot but never do we see batfish attempt to come onto the land as they are a deep-sea dweller and yet despite
these unique features, they are classified as a type of angler fish, even
though they don’t look too much like an angler fish and beside that, angler
fish are not lobed-finned nor do they use their respective fins for walking,
but swim around just like any typical fish and for those of you out there who
don’t know what an angler fish looks like, here’s an image of one:
If land animals
existed at the same time as Elpistostelgids which, according to
evolutionists, were ancestral to land animals, then from what would land
animals have evolved? That is the challenge that evolutionists are faced with
it and a challenge that apparently, they have not attempted to address. It appears that the Devonian land animal
tracks have been swept under the rug.
Now, from an
objective standpoint, evolutionists may attempt to explain this by admitting
that land animals evolved sooner than previously thought and that they and the
existing Elpistostelgids simply just diverged from a shared ancestral
line; the same explanation that they use for why apes and man continue to
coexist with each other, but if land animals evolved sooner than previously
thought, then that would mean fish evolved sooner than previously thought as
well, possibly pushing the evolution of fish even back to the same time period
as the evolution of invertebrates, even as far back, as far as anyone might be
concerned, to Cambrian period---the layers in which complex life forms appear suddenly without any ancestral trace---but the further back in time the existence of land
animals and fish are pushed back, then the more rapidly it might appear that
evolution took place.
But to the
Creationist, evidence of land animals existing at the same time as the Elpistostegids
from which they were supposed to have descended, is evidence against
evolution and more consistent with the Genesis account of creation which states
that God had created all living things after their own kind and so for those
who take the Genesis account of creation as actual history, it is no surprise
to them that animals which, according to evolution, were not supposed to be
living alongside each other, should be found to have once coexisted with each
other.
The only thing
that creationists and evolutionists might agree on, however, is that fish did
proceed land animals; it is just that evolutionists have purported fish as
having proceeded land animals by millions of years whereas the Genesis account
of creation states that aquatic life proceeded land animals by just one day as
it is written, according to the Genesis account of creation that aquatic life
was created on day five of the creation week, (Gen. 1:20-23) with land dwelling
animals and man being created on day six (v. 24-27) and if the entire universe
and everything in it was created in six literal days as the Bible says, than
all living things would have all coexisted with one another at one time and
peacefully so because when God created the world, He had once created it to be
a world in which there had existed a perfect and uninterrupted harmony between
God, man, and nature; even amongst the animals but that harmony had sadly
become disrupted the day that evil had come into the world in the form of a
serpent and caused the first man Adam and Eve being the first woman and Adam’s
wife to commit a fateful act of disobedience that would bring unprecedented
changes into the world and universe for the worse and that evil which had come
to them in the form of a serpent, before it turned to evil, had once been a
certain angel; a covering cherub called Lucifer who had once served at the
throne of God until the day that he had become so lifted up in pride that he
thought to make himself equal to God which resulted in him and all who sided
with him against God to be cast from their positions in Heaven (Is. 14:11-21,
Ezek. 28:12-19) and it was in that day that Lucifer became known as Satan or
the Devil and it was he who was responsible for leading Adam and Eve into
committing the fateful act that would plunge the world into the fallen state
that it is in today but before he came into the world to tempt them into that
consequential transgression Adam and Eve had initially been given dominion over
the entire earth and everything in it (Gen. 1:26) and nothing was withheld from
them except for one thing and that was a fruit from a certain tree called the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, having been warned of God that in the
day that the ate the fruit thereof, they would surely die, (Gen. 2:16-16, 3:3)
but instead of obeying the voice of the Lord, Adam and Eve chose to heed the
lies of Satan who falsely assured them that the eating of that forbidden fruit
would not bring upon them the sentence of death of which they had been warned
(Gen. 3:4) and deceived them with false promises of greater things instead (v.
5) but after Adam and Eve had eaten of that forbidden fruit, instead of
attaining to the greater heights they were falsely promised, they were reduced
to a lower and inferior status and, just as they were warned of God, the
sentence of death came upon them for the eating of that forbidden fruit to
which they eventually succumbed. (Gen. 3:19)
But the
consequences of that transgression did not stop with Adam and Eve because the
sin that entered into them and brought about their eventual deaths was also
inherited by the rest of mankind (Rom. 5:12) and why we all eventually die as a
consequence (Rom. 6:23) but the consequences of the transgression still do not
stop with mankind, but have affected all of creation which is why it is written
that the entire creation groans and travails in pain to this day (Rom. 8:19-22)
Sin is the reason
why death, sin, and suffering abound throughout the world because it corrupts,
taints, distorts, and eventually destroys all that it touches; its
pervasiveness goes far beyond what anyone can possibly comprehend and it was
only when sin entered into the world that extinctions began to occur.
When God had first
created the world, it was filled with life but because of sin, this presently
fallen world in which we live is a dead place in comparison to what it had once
been before sin entered into the world because the entire creation has been
dying a very slow, painful, and agonizing death and decay due to sin in which
death has its power and through which Satan wields the power permitted him over
the nations, kingdoms, empires, and peoples of the world, having felt justified
by the transgression of Adam to claim lordship over them, (Mt. 4:8-9, Lk.
4:6-7) having by a lie usurped and diminished the dominion initially given to
Adam and the lie by which he usurped and diminished the dominion is also the
very lie that brought sin, death, decay, and all kinds, degrees, and severities
of pain, grief, suffering, and hardship into the world that was used to lead
Adam and his wife Eve into the eating of that forbidden fruit by which sin and
death entered into the world and brought it into its present fallen state and
that lie that led Adam and Eve into that fateful and consequential act of
disobedience, having been the first known lie to have ever been told, is what
made Satan who told it the father of lies (Jn. 8:44) and not only did that very
lie earn him the title of the father of lies, but it also made him a murderer
(v. 44) and into a thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy (Jn. 10:10) for
by the lie that led Adam and Eve into the eating of that forbidden fruit, Satan
diminished and usurped the dominion of man, subjugating him to sin and death,
and in causing mankind to be in bondage to sin and death, he was made a
murderer, and also through sin and death, he was made into a destroyer because
due to the sin that he brought into the world which has also resulted in death,
creation itself was made subject to a slow destruction.
By a lie Satan
brought mankind and all of creation into the bondage of death, decay,
suffering, misery, hardship, grief, pain, sin, evil, and destruction and by
lies has he maintained his power and influence over the affairs of the world
and has kept in bondage countless souls, estranged from their Creator, and has
lulled them into eternal damnation because with his lies, he has kept them
blinded to the very truth by which freedom comes (Jn. 8:32) and one of the many
lies that he uses to blind men to the truth that sets free is the pervasive theory
or philosophy of evolution and not only has this lie served as an instrument of
mass deception, but in maintaining this instrument of mass deception, he does
all in his power to suppress anything that might discredit this lie and which
might make plain to the souls he holds captive the reality of our Creator to whom
all things owe their existence, who offers mercy and redemption to all who are
willing to receive it, but who will also eventually hold accountable all that which
is evil and gives itself over to do that which is evil in His sight because if
the philosophy of evolution were to be thoroughly discredited in the minds of the
public, multitudes might very well find themselves having no choice but to confess
the existence of their Maker and may even decide to humble themselves before Almighty
God and thus be delivered from what might otherwise be a fearful judgment ending
in a never ending and unrelenting punishment and torment for all eternity.
But if the
evolutionists in whom Satan is at work would sweep under the rug a discovery
that challenges and may even refute a tenet in their philosophy, then what else
have they have they swept under the rug and have prevented from being public
knowledge.
For those of you
out there who did not know anything about the Devonian trackway mentioned
earlier which clearly shows land animals to have coexisted with the lobed-finned
fish from which they were supposed to have evolved until now, there is a reason
for that; evolutionists do not know how to meet that challenge and so the
evolutionist controlled media have made sure that you don’t know anything about
it just as they are making every effort to make sure that you don’t know about
the massive amount of biological, paleontological, anthropological, archaeological,
astronomical, and historical evidence against the philosophy of evolution; this
particular Devonian land-animal trackway being just one of a multitude of examples
that the evolutionist controlled media has tried to keep from you because the
spirit behind the evolutionist controlled media and scientific community doesn’t
want you to know that you are not some cosmic accident but that there is in
fact a God who created you and to whom all life owes its existence, who is the
source of all truth (Jn. 14:6) which is also the source of our liberty (Jn. 8:32),
who is the Maker
and definer of our reality,
who is the sole
determiner of what is right and wrong, good and evil,
who is actively
involved in the affairs of mankind and His creation,
who will eventually
eliminate all that which is evil, sinful, and wicked in His sight, before whom
all of mankind will have to give an account for everything that we have done
and said, and before whom even every thought, motive and attitude will be given
into account, but the spirit behind the philosophy of evolution does not want
mankind to know that he is inherently corrupt and estranged from a Creator that
offers reconciliation, redemption, mercy, and the forgiveness of sins but
instead wants to keep mankind blind to their sinful nature in order to lull
them into an eternity of an everlasting separation from God Almighty which will
be filled with nothing but ongoing torment in the darkness and fires of Hell
because if we were made aware of our inherently corrupt nature, we might then
come to understand that sin is not merely defined by our outward behavior or
even by what we say, but is the inherently corrupt condition of our nature
which we inherited from our ancestors Adam and Eve into whom sin first entered
when they had eaten of that forbidden fruit, and if we were to understand
exactly what it is that sin is and how it is that we became inherently sinful,
we would then begin to see how and why it is that we sin and fall short of the
glory of our Creator, (Rom. 3:23) why it is written that we are not defiled by
that which comes from without but by that which is from within, (Mt. 15:11,
18-20) and once that is understood, we might begin to see why our own efforts at
goodness will always fall short of what God requires due to sin within us and
why it is that we are in need of redemption, mercy, and the forgiveness of
sins, and a redemption that comes not by our own efforts, but by an act of the
love of God towards us in spite of our fallen and corrupted state and it is
because of love that God is not willing that any should ever perish in their
sins and face eternal damnation but that all would come to repentance (2 Pet.
3:9) and in His love, mercy, and graciousness, He has purchased redemption on
our behalf in Christ Jesus, His only begotten Son, (Jn. 3:16) who came to us in
the flesh, (Jn. 1:14) and being without any sin (2 Cor. 5:21) was made that
perfect sacrifice (Heb. 7:26-27) that was needed to take away the sins of the
world and because of His perfect goodness, He was able to offer Himself up on
our behalf to satisfy the demanded penalty for all sin and granting mercy and
grace through the shedding of His blood on the cross and after having died,
rose again from the dead three days later that we might be justified in Him
(Rom. 4:25) if we will but call upon His name so that we might be saved from
what would otherwise be a terrifying everlasting punishment if we will but call
upon His name (Rom. 10:9, 13) and believe in our hearts that God raised Him
from the dead (Rom. 10:9) for it is by calling upon His name in sincere
repentance that salvation is granted and our souls made clean from sin thereby
liberating us from the threat of eternal damnation and with that cleansing
comes a new spiritual transformation (2 Cor. 5:17) that causes us to no longer
desire to follow after selfish and worldly pursuits but after those things that
pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven,
to no longer take
pleasure in those things that are evil and displeasing in the sight of the
Lord, but in that which is good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to no longer
desire to walk in the lies of this present world, but only in the truth that
comes from Christ Almighty who is the source of all truth, (Jn. 14:6)
no longer placing
our hopes in the things of this present world, but looking forward to that new
and better world to come, (Rev. 21-22)
to no longer rely
on worldly resources, men, or even our own power, abilities, skills, and wisdom
for our needs and provision but upon God who is able to meet all of our needs,
recognizing that the resources of this world and even the people He brings into
our lives are but instruments and vessels through which God meets our needs and
that the skills, power, knowledge, and wisdom by which we might acquire our
provision are provided and instilled in us by God, (Mt. 6:25-33)
to no longer fear
what men can do to us, but rather fearing the God before whom we will have to
one day give an account for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to no longer look
to corruptible institutions within our society for direction and order in our
lives but to God who, by His written Word has given us laws and precepts to be
applied to our lives and which serve to produce and maintain an ordered life, and
who, by His Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon repentance,
establishes in our lives a course and direction in our lives to pursue for His
glory,
to no longer seek
our own glory but the glory of God,
to no longer rally
behind corruptible men, but instead behind the incorruptible God in Heaven
bearing in mind that those men and women God raises up for our edification are
but instruments and servants of His for that respective purpose to which He has
called them,
to no longer seek
to align ourselves with the things of darkness but only with the things of the
light,
and to no longer trust
in the wisdom of the world but only on the wisdom and knowledge that comes from
above, (Jas. 1:5) nor depend on corruptible earthly authorities to swiftly
administer justice, but only in the power of God to deliver us from evil.
And it is this new
inward transformation that reconciles us to our Creator (2 Cor. 5:18) from whom
we had once been estranged and just as our souls are cleansed from sin and our
spirits regenerated in Christ Jesus thereby liberating us from the eternal tormenting
punishment that must come upon all who remain in their sins, so one day we look
forward to the liberation of our bodies from death itself when our mortal and
corruptible forms are transformed into that which is immortal and incorruptible
and from that which is imperfect to that which is perfect (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1
Thess. 4:13-18) and lastly, creation itself will be delivered from the curse
placed upon it because of sin when it is made into a new and better world (Rev.
21-22) and liberated from the hand of our adversary Satan, who presently claims
dominion, when he is given his final sentence and cast into an everlasting
tormenting fire prepared for him and his followers (Mt. 25:41, Rev. 20:10-15)
and in that new world which will be made, there will be no sin, no death, no
decay, nor any curse, nor any evil, or violence, suffering, misery, grief,
sorrow, mourning, pain, or hardship of any sort for all of these will pass away
with this present world. Instead, there
will only be light, life, happiness, joy, contentment, peace, and rest before
the Lord God Almighty.
But in the meantime,
each and every one of us has a choice to make as to what side on this age-long
warfare between God and Satan and the eternal fate of each and every one of us
will be determined by whether we choose to side with either:
Life or death
Good or evil
Light or darkness
Truth or falsehood
Wisdom or
foolishness
Holiness or
sinfulness
Purity or
corruption
Righteousness or
unrighteousness
Order or chaos
Liberty or
oppression
Angels or demons
God or Satan
Heaven or Hell
Salvation or
damnation
And ultimately what
each person chooses will not have anything to do with purported facts and
evidence that are claimed to be in favor of either the Gospel message of Jesus
Christ or against it, but it will all come down to what has been determined and
resolved in the heart of each and every person; whether they at heart for God
or against God, whether they choose to be in submission to His rule and His
authority or whether they reject His authority and become pawns, instruments,
and servants of Satan and so putting evidence in favor or against something
aside, which do you reader choose? Do you choose to willingly receive the offer
of redemption through Jesus Christ our Lord, or will you reject His offer of
forgiveness and redemption because you enjoy your sin too much? And if you
choose repentance and to place your trust in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ alone
for the forgiveness of sins and in nothing more, then I urge you reader, if you
have not already done so, to call upon the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ today for the forgiveness of sins so as to be sure that all of your sins
are forgiven and so that you may have assurance that you will not be shut out
of the Kingdom of God but will be made a permanent citizen of the Kingdom of
Heaven. It is just a sincere prayer of
repentance away:
"Lord Jesus I
need you.
I realize that I
am a sinner
who has fallen
short of the glory of God
and that my
goodness falls short
of your standard
of Moral perfection.
Please forgive me
of all of my sins.
Come into my heart
and into my life
to be the Savior
and Lord of my life.
Make me into the
servant and follower
that you want me
to be.
In your name Lord
Jesus, I pray.
Amen."
Know that God is
not concerned with the words that you use to call upon Him forgiveness, but
with the attitude of your heart and if you have, with all sincerity, have asked
Christ to forgive you of your sins, placing your trust in Him only for your
salvation and in nothing else, then your sins are forgiven and your place in
Heaven is certain.
End notes:
1. “Ancient Four-Legged Beasts Leave Their Mark,”
Science.org, January 6, 2010
https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-four-legged-beasts-leave-their-mark
2. Ibid.
3. “batfish,” Brittanica
Kids
https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/batfish/310107
Extra Info:
Scripture references:
1. Genesis 1:20-23
2. Genesis 1:24-27
3. Isaiah 14:11-21, Ezekiel 28:12-19
4. Genesis 1:26
5. Genesis 2:16-17, 3:3
6. Genesis 3:4-5
7. Genesis 3:19
8. Romans 5:12
9. Romans 6:23
10. Romans 8:19-22
14. Matthew 4:8-9, Luke 4:6-7
15. John 12:31
16. John 16:11
18. John 8:44
19. John 10:10
20. John 14:6
21. John 8:32
22. Romans 3:23
23. Matthew 15:11, 18-20
24. 2 Peter 3:9
25. John 3:16
26. John 1:14
27. 2 Corinthians 5:21
28. Hebrews 7:26-27
29. Romans 4:25
30. Romans 10:9, 13
31. 2 Corinthians 5:17
32. Revelation 21-22
33. Matthew 6:25-33
34. Matthew 10:28
35. James 1:5
36. 2 Corinthians 5:18
37. 1 Corinthians 15:51-55, 1 Thessalonians
4:13-18
38. Matthew 25:41, Revelation 20:10-15
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