Fantasizing about Salmon Evolution

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The other day, I hitched up the buckboard and rode into town for supplies. Since the town is small and entertainment is scarce, occasional lectures from officials at the Darwin Ranch are given. This time it was Russell Watchtower from their Ministry of Truth.

Aside from Stinking Lake (which is not as bad as it sounds), the town is not near water. Russell talked on the evolution of salmon. The establishment had salmon on the menu for those of us who dine and listen. He presented no evidence for evolution, just assertions.

Coho Salmon, NOAA Fisheries (Public Domain)
Up yonder in Alaska, fossil Salmonidae were discovered along with other fishes. One is supposed to be an ancestor of salmon at age seventy-three million years. Trouble is, there is no sign of evolution. With fish and other critters, people should be practically tripping over transitional forms (something changing into something else), but the organisms in fossils that are said to be from millions of Darwin years ago are just like their modern counterparts.

The secular science industry wants things two ways at once. Salmon are delicate and need oxygen, yet they somehow survived and adapted (again, without evidence). A common rescuing device is stasis, where something did not evolve because it did not have to. No "evolutionary pressures" despite claimed millions of years where the earth is a busy place and habitats are threatened. The logical conclusion is (you must remember this), a fish is still a fish. They were created that way.
Fish evolution remains an enigma. Evolutionists can only say fish first “appeared” over a half-billion years ago.1 Creationists recognize fish have always been fish since their creation just thousands of years ago. Indeed, when fish are found entombed in sedimentary rock they are always fish, not their alleged evolutionary relatives.

Fossil-hunters have recently unearthed 100% fish in Alaskan sediments. According to Sci.News, “Paleontologists have found the fossils of three new fish species — including the earliest known salmonid fish, Sivulliusalmo alaskensis — at the Prince Creek Formation of northern Alaska.2 Salmon supposedly evolved from an unknown European ancestor between 50 and 100 million years ago. But with that kind of wide time window, it’s safe to say evolutionists don’t really know when these amazing (and delicious) fish evolved.

For the rest, see "'73-Million-Year-Old'' Alaskan Salmon."