Fish that ‘fly’
The members of the fish family Exocoetidae, one of the families known as
‘flying fish,’ possess enlarged pectoral fins. Having propelled themselves
out of the water with great force, they spread these fins out like wings to glide
through the air for up to several dozen metres.
The ‘flying’ fish Exocoetoides minor, fossilized in Lebanese
Cretaceous rock. This rock is alleged by evolutionists to be around 100 million
years old. The fossils indicate that flying fish have always been flying fish.
The Darwinist sees this incredible feat as a chance development. The belief is that
once upon a time a fish like this, but with ordinary fins (and so, lacking the ability
to glide) had offspring in which, by a chance genetic accident, the pectoral fins
were just a few millimetres longer than normal. This was supposed to have given
it a survival advantage, because when it was chased by predators, it could glide
a fraction longer after leaping out of the water.
The ones that could glide less well were more likely to be eaten. By this means,
it is believed and taught, the flying fishes gradually evolved to their present
situation, with very long pectoral fins.
Fortunately for those who are sceptical of this evolutionary theory, there are fossils
of such ‘flying’ fishes found in rocks, which enable us to put it to
the test!
The example shown in the photo here, which is from Cretaceous rock in Lebanon, shows
that the ‘earliest’ known Exocoetidae had pectoral fins which were just
as enlarged as those today. None are known showing the ‘part-enlarged’
fins which evolutionists would predict. There are other fossilized fish with equally
enlarged pectoral fins in so-called Triassic rock—which, if one were to believe
the evolutionary age dating scheme, would be even 100 million years earlier. This
certainly adds up to bad news for believers in the evolutionary origin of the flying
fishes.
Note
Based on an article by J. Scheven in the German
publication LEBEN 8, 1996, published by the creationist museum Lebendige
Vorwelt.
(Available in
Finnish)
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