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# ''Tiktaalik'', an alleged not-quite-[[amphibian]] having four legs. Evolutionists make much of its discovery in the very [[geologic stratum]] where they predicted that they would find it.
 
# ''Tiktaalik'', an alleged not-quite-[[amphibian]] having four legs. Evolutionists make much of its discovery in the very [[geologic stratum]] where they predicted that they would find it.
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Two species, out of the myriads that exist, cannot be said to carry the load for defending common descent without additional evidence. ''Archaeopteryx'' is probably a true bird, not a dinosaur-bird transitional form. (The similar "find" called ''Archaeoraptor'' is a deliberate fraud, and almost no evolutionists defend it today.) And ''tiktaalik'' might have been found in that deep stratum for either of at least two reasons:
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Two species, out of the myriads that exist, cannot be said to carry the load for defending common descent without additional evidence. ''Archaeopteryx'' is probably a true bird, not a dinosaur-bird transitional form. (The similar "find" called ''Archaeoraptor'' is a deliberate fraud, and almost no evolutionists defend it today.) Similarly, ''tiktaalik'' is simply a fish with slightly better-than-usually-developed pectoral and pelvic fins.
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# It was less able to seek higher ground than other, "smarter" animals, and thus was buried deep in the Flood.
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# It is actually an antediluvian laboratory [[chimera]] and hence an [[out-of-place artifact]] of a society already known to have been inordinately cruel.
      
=== Uniformitarianism ===
 
=== Uniformitarianism ===
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