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Today there are over 10,000 species of fish, which is far more diversity than all land vertebrates (actually, over 35,000 species of spiders).  This diversity pattern can be explained by the notion that fish, being aquatic, survived the [[Great Flood]], while many land vertebrates went extinct during this catastrophic event. <ref>http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c037.html</ref>

Today there are over 10,000 species of fish, which is far more diversity than all land vertebrates (actually, over 35,000 species of spiders).  This diversity pattern can be explained by the notion that fish, being aquatic, survived the [[Great Flood]], while many land vertebrates went extinct during this catastrophic event. <ref>http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c037.html</ref>

{{quote|Genesis 1:20-21 says, “And God said, 'Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.' So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.”}}

::: Genesis 1:20-21 says, “And God said, 'Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.' So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.”

However, God didn't get the memo that there were fish walking on land,<ref>[http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/100311-terrestrial-fish-ngtoday]</ref> and that some fish evolved into amphibians.<ref>[http://www.earthhistory.org.uk/transitional-fossils/fish-to-amphibian]</ref><ref>[https://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/tutorials/The_evidence_for_evolution22.asp]</ref>

However, God didn't get the memo that there were fish walking on land,<ref>[http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/100311-terrestrial-fish-ngtoday]</ref> and that some fish evolved into amphibians.<ref>[http://www.earthhistory.org.uk/transitional-fossils/fish-to-amphibian]</ref><ref>[https://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/tutorials/The_evidence_for_evolution22.asp]</ref>