[allmendream]

They thought the entire order coelacanth was extinct, this would be the operating hypothesis (awaiting new evidence)considering that nobody had ever seen or described the extant species, or seen any fossil evidence that the order had survived the Cretaceous. What other hypothesis should have been considered?

[PAR35]

What other hypothesis should have been considered?

There is a difference between an hypothesis and a theory, and between a theory and a pr oven fact. Evolutionists sometimes have trouble making those distinctions.

[SteveMcKing]

If it hadn’t been caught, they’d deride the absence of this fish as a missing link.

Now that they caught one, it’s shown as evidence against evolution.