The Myth of Tiktaalik as a Missing Link

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Darwin's Flying Monkeys™ swoop down on creationist sites, gleefully telling us how stupid we — they are the smart ones for believing "science." One example is something like, "Tiktaalik is a transitional form that refutes creation. Haw, haw, haw!" Not hardly!

It seems that atheists and other evolutionists do not keep current with their evolution stories; knowledgeable creationists have to correct them. In this case, tetrapods (vertebrates with four limbs, including humans) supposedly evolved from lobe-finned fish. Rikki-tikki-tiktaalik was one such fish.

Tiktaalik roseae, WikiComm / Olmagon (CC BY-SA 4.0), modified at PhotoFunia
Darwin's disciples were all a-twitter when they found parts of Tiktaalik because they presuppose their story of evolution and that it made tracks on land. This meant it wanted to be a tetrapod. A big problem for evolution believers is that they often don't get the memo: Tracks by a tetrapod were found that were dated using conventional methods to be millions of years older than Rikki's tracks. Oopsie! This transitional form is a debunked myth that some folks choose to believe despite the evidence. Why? Because the alternative is that life was created, and they can't abide by that.
In 2004, the paleontological community—and the world—was presented with what many evolutionists considered to be a dyed-in-the-wool missing link between fish and land animals (tetrapods). Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin and evolutionary paleontologists Edward Daeschler and Farish Jenkins found an incomplete fossil of a creature called Tiktaalik on Ellesmere Island in northern Canada. The specimen was supposedly 375 to 383 million years old (Devonian layers). Since then over 60 Tiktaalik specimens have been discovered.

The rest of the article is located at "The Tiktaalik Missing Link Myth."