This is Ken Ham, author of the book on compromise in the church, In Six Days.
In 1938, a fisherman pulled up a coelacanth, a fish that scientists thought went extinct 70 million years ago.
In 1994, a park officer accidently found a Wollemi pine tree thought to have gone extinct 200 million years ago.
What do “living fossils” like these tell us? Well, if evolution and millions of years are true, then surely the coelacanth or the Wollemi pine would have evolved or gone extinct over tens of millions of years. And yet, we still find them virtually unchanged today.
The flood of Noah’s day provides a much better explanation for these fossils. They were rapidly buried just a few thousand years ago.
Dig Deeper
- Firefighters Save Trees That Outlived the Dinosaurs . . . But Was That Millions of Years Ago?
- Sorry, But You Are Extinct: the Coelacanth’s Story
This post originally appeared at https://answersingenesis.org/media/audio/answers-with-ken-ham/volume-158/living-fossils/