A Weird Fish and a Tree

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I’m going to tell you two stories. In one, a fisherman catches an odd-looking fish that turns out to be a coelacanth, thought to be extinct for seventy million years.

In the second story, a park officer finds a Wollemi pine tree, thought to have gone extinct two hundred million years ago.

These stories remind us that, if evolution and millions of years are true, then surely the coelacanth or the Wollemi pine would’ve evolved—or gone extinct—over tens of millions of years. Yet we still find them today, virtually unchanged. And that’s because life didn’t evolve, and earth is only thousands of years old.

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