APOLOGETICS: The theory of evolution is challenged by the discovery of living fossils  such as the Coelacanth. Not only has it existed along side man for thousands of years, it has not changed or evolved. What you find in the fossil record looks exactly like what is swimming around in the water. 

Well maybe it wasn't exactly Sherlock who saw the dinosaur, but his creator -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- said he did.

According to his autobiography, in 1909 Doyle and his wife were on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean when they spotted a creature swimming in the sea. Doyle said it was "about four feet long, with a thin neck and tail and four-marked side slippers."

Doyle was convinced he and his wife had spotted an Ichthyosaurus.

Of course, Doyle penned a number of books, but one has intrigued children for years -- "The Lost World."

In it, Doyle writes about a group of explorers who came across a secluded plateau where dinosaurs and human co-existed. He wrote this book in 1911, two years after the sighting. It seems likely that the spotting of a living dinosaur sparked Doyle's imagination. If there was one, there could be others.

One fear that grips the heart of evolutionists is the discovery of modern day dinosaur. They have repeatedly stated that dinosaurs, who supposedly died out 65 million years ago, never existed along side man.

However, the discovery of a Coelacanth not only shocked but dismayed evolutionists because here was a dinosaur living among us.

The Coelacanth is a large fish reaching a length of 6.5 feet (two metres) and weighs as much as 176 pounds (80 kg).

According to evolutionists, Coelacanths preceded dinosaurs by millions of years having arrived on earth 340 million years ago. It died out at the same time as dinosaurs -- 65 million years ago. They were so convinced of the Coelacanth's evolutionary pedigree its fossils were used as marker fossils -- to date other fossils found in the same strata as the Coelacanth.

It was even considered a "missing link" because of the front lobes on the fins, which evolutionists proclaimed as irrefutable proof it was on its way to becoming a land rover. Of course, you can say anything you want about fossils.

Well, they were wrong.

The Evolutionary propaganda on the Coelacanth came to a dramatic stop in  1938, when a living and breathing specimen was caught by South African fishermen in the Gulf of India. Fishermen in the area had been catching them for years.

Since then, other colonies of Coelacanth have been found. In 1998, a marine biologist found one at a fish market in Indonesia and other more recent sightings suggest it is more wide spread than originally thought.

The Coelacanth has challenged evolutionary theory on a number of fronts:

First, despite its supposed incredible age, the Coelacanth has not evolved one iota. What you see in fossils is the exact same fish you see in the water.

Another disturbing feature is its advanced features which again challenges the very basis of evolutionary theory that creature evolve into higher more developed species.

In its head is a jell-pack with three openings (via pores) to the outside of the skull.  According to scientists, the Coelacanth uses this jell pack to track the electrical currents of its prey hiding in the rock crevices where the living dinosaur feeds.

So maybe Conan Doyle's sighting was not so far fetched.

"When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however, improbable, must be the truth," - Sherlock Holmes 

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