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Amphibians
Frogs, toads, salamanders and caecilians
are all amphibians, scale-less vertebrates
able to live on both land and in
the water. There are about 4,000 different
species.
Because amphibians are able to live
on land as well as in the water, evolutionists
have claimed that they are a “transitional
form” in the movement of vertebrate
life from water to land.
According to the evolutionist scenario,
fish first evolved into amphibians,
which later developed into reptiles. But
there is no proof for this. Not a single
fossil has been found that proves that a
half-fish or a half-amphibian ever lived.
In this book, Vertebrate Paleontology
and Evolution, the noted evolutionist
writer Robert L. Carroll says that in
fact, we have no fossils of any intermediate
form between early amphibians
and rhipidistian fish.16
Colbert and Morales, evolutionist paleontologists,
make the following comment
on the amphibians’ three classes—
frogs, salamanders and caecilians.
There is no evidence of any Paleozoic
amphibians combining the characteristics
that would be expected in a single
common ancestor. The oldest known
frogs, salamanders, and caecilians are
very similar to their living descendants.
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Up until about 60 years ago, an extinct
fossilized fish called the Coelacanth,
estimated to be 410 million years
old, was touted in evolutionist sources as
the transitional form between fish and
amphibians. But the fact that this fish,
still alive and anatomically unchanged
was caught in the Indian Ocean invalidated
these evolutionist claims. (See Coelacanth.)
In the evolutionist scenario, the second
stage is the evolution of amphibians
to reptiles and their movement from
the water to the land. But there is no solid
fossil discovery to support this claim.
On the contrary, there remain very great
physiological and anatomical differences
between amphibians and reptiles.
For example, take the structure of the
eggs of the two different species. Amphibians
lay their eggs in water. Their
eggs have a very permeable, transparent
membrane and a gelatin-like consistency
that allows them to develop in water. But
because reptiles lay their eggs on the
ground, they are designed for a dry climate.
Reptile eggs are amniotic with a
strong rubbery shell that admits air, but
keeps water out. For this reason, the fluid
needed by the young is stored within
until they hatch.
If amphibian eggs were laid on the
ground, they would soon dry out, and the
embryos inside would die. This poses a
problem for any evolutionist explanation
of how reptiles evolved in stages from
amphibians: For the very first amphibians
to begin living entirely on land, their
eggs would have had to transform into
amniotic eggs within a single generation.
How this switch could have suddenly
occurred cannot be explained by
the evolutionist mechanisms of natural
selection and mutation.
Again, the fossil record leaves the
origins of reptiles with no evolutionist
explanation. The noted evolutionist paleontologist,
Robert L. Carroll, admits this
in an article entitled “Problems of the
Origin of Reptiles”:
Unfortunately not a single specimen of
an appropriate reptilian ancestor is
known prior to the appearance of true
reptiles. The absence of such ancestral
forms leaves many problems of the amphibian-
reptilian transition unanswered.
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The same fact is admitted by the late
evolutionist paleontologist, Stephen Jay
Gould, of Harvard University: “No fossil
amphibian seems clearly ancestral to
the lineage of fully terrestrial vertebrates
(reptiles, birds, and mammals)." (See
Movement from Water to land,
the.)19