It’s all so slick in the evolutionary storytelling world, especially with one of its icons Tiktaalik roseae.
Tiktaalik is a fish supposedly 3751 million years old which has been promoted as a transitional fossil in sea-to-land evolution.
Tiktaalik has its own website2 and was even the theme of a song to promote evolution with the repeated line, “tik, tik, tik, tik, Tiktaalik.”3
The Tiktaalik story began in 2004 when University of Chicago researchers found a fossilized skull (not a fully formed fish) in Canada. More remains were found at the same locality on Ellesmere Island in 2006, 2008 and 2013 and assigned to Tiktaalik.
Many features needed for terrestrial existence are simply not present in Tiktaalik—Shaun Doyle
On the basis of the finds, a representation of how Tiktaalik may have looked was produced and presented to the world as proof positive of a transitional form in fish-to-tetrapod evolution.
An unquestioning media soon took up the story and heralded the find as another milestone in science.
A fishy story that has no legs. …read more
Read more here: creation.com
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