Missing Link or Another Fish Story?

Institute for Creation Research ^ | 11-24-14 | Frank Sherwin

[fishtank]

Missing Link or Another Fish Story?

by Frank Sherwin, M.A. *

Recently there has been some celebration from the Darwinian community regarding a discovery of a fossil 1 that allegedly links terrestrial animals to their future aquatic relatives: the ichthyosaurs.

Cartorhynchus lenticarpus is proclaimed by some evolutionists to be an amphibious ancestor of the ichthyosaurs, aquatic reptiles whose name means "fish lizards." Rachel Feltman of the Washington Post was jubilant, saying this "fossil could prove a problem for creationists."2

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ICR article image.

[Sawdring]

Oops, clicked on the link before I saw the source.

[raygunfan]

Another classic hand waving, just so story for the religion of Darwin

[jimmyray]

Quote: "Oops, clicked on the link before I saw the source."

Yeah, nothing worse than clicking on a non-approved source and being exposed to a balanced, footnoted article that contradicts the "truth" one has been indoctrinated in since childhood.

[huldah1776]

where are the fish with the leg buds? This one looks like it has fully formed feet. Doesn’t evolution show a scale becoming a feather or does the full feather gene just appear? What about multiple genes controlling things? Is that comparable to winning 3 or more lotteries in one day?

Just wondering.

[Ben Ficklin]

You are not supposed to be talking about the footnotes because if you start pointing people towards the footnotes, they will start wondering why Sherwin wrote about the WaPo article rather than the Nature magazine article.

They will also notice nothing about the actual research paper, and realize that if someone(like Sherwin) wants to dispute the research, he needs to dispute the research rather than disputing articles written about the research.

[bert]

me too..... I’ll immediately depart the balderdacious drivel