Have you ever heard of the coelacanths (see-la-kanths)? For decades evolutionists taught that they became extinct about the same time dinosaurs did (supposedly 65 million years ago). It was said that these fish gradually developed legs and began to live on land, later becoming extinct. These were the 'missing link' between certain water & land animals! Evolutionists used coelacanths were used as part of their 'index fossil' system, meaning that any rocks containing their fossils were considered to be at least 65 million years old, and other fossils in those rocks assumed to be at least that old as well.

 
     Until 1938, evolutionists believed that men and coelacanths could not possibly have lived at the same time. On December 24, 1938, the scientific world was "rocked" when an unidentified fish, 5 ft long, 100 lbs was brought to shore in South Africa. It was caught in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar. The fisherman called it the great sea lizard because its pectoral fins looked more like fringed little legs. Once scientists examined the fish they found out it was a coelacanth.
 One evolutionist said that he could not have been more surprised if he had come across a living dinosaur. According to their theory coelacanths evolved before dinosaurs did.
     
     What makes the evolutionary idea about coelacanths being a missing link even more outrageous is that these fish live near the ocean floor. They are deep water fish that rarely come within less than 500 ft. of the surface.
     
   This fossil of this fish looks exactly the same as the living fish. That shouldn't surprise us at all, as the Bible says animals produce "after their kind." This fish has surely made the evolutionary dating method look very silly.