Shark Tale II

February 11, 2007

By: Sellers S. Crain, Jr.

    Have you seen the picture yet of the 150 million year old shark that was recently photographed?  The creature had been living 2,000 feet under the sea and was captured on film by the staff of a Japanese marine park.  The Awashima Marine Park was informed that a large creature resembling an eel which had a mouth full of sharp teeth was spotted.  They set out to find this creature and came upon a five foot long female frilled shark.  Because of the fact that it has remained essentially the same since prehistoric times, it has been called a "living fossil".  The shark was taken into captivity and died a few hours later, I assume of old age.

    Now surely you know that a fish cannot live to be 150 million years old.  I don't know if they even attempted to determine the age of this particular shark.  While they are rarely seen because of the great depths in which they live, some even up to 3,280 feet below the surface, they were known to exist.  This is another example of a specie of animal that was declared to be extinct, in this case more than 150 million years ago, by evolutionary scientists.  Not only is the creature not extinct, but scientists admit that it has changed little since prehistoric times.

    What does this mean?  According to evolutionists all living things on earth are evolving and every day and in every way getting better and better.  Man started out as a fish, evolved into a land mammal, became a tree climbing ape, and finally became a human being.  Now if all of that sounds like fantasy, that is because it is.  If this weird looking shark was known to have existed "150 million years ago", and it still looks identical to its ancestors, that means it has not evolved.  Why?  If all things evolve, this this shark should have been much more attractive than the picture I saw.

    When many people think of the word "evolution", they think of minor changes.  However, when evolutionists think of evolution, they envision radical changes, even the crossing of species.  They have drawings and plastic models to illustrate their theories, but there is no real hard evidence to support their claims.

    Once I asked a former professor of mine, who said he was an agnostic and an evolutionist, if he believed in the Big Bang theory and that life was created by spontaneous generation.  He said he did.  I asked further if he believed that this creature multiplied and divided until it evolved into all the many different living creatures we have on earth today.  He answered, "Yes!"  Then I asked, "Then tell me when that creature decided it wanted to be male and female?"  He did not know, but we do: "God created them, male and female." (Genesis 1:27)

Brotherly,

Sellers