Stories For Thinking Children by Harun Yahya - page 234

what would happen to fish if they emerged onto the land: They
would die!
Have you ever been fishing? Just think! What would hap-
pen if a fish took the bait and was hooked on your line and
you saved its life and brought it home to have a rest in your
backyard? As we have just said, it would die. If you were to
go fishing again, and this time caught many fish and brought
them all back to your backyard, then what would happen? The
same thing: they would all die!
Yet evolutionists refuse to agree. They say that one of the
fish in your backyard suddenly started changing while it was
waiting to die, and that it turned into a reptile and continued
living! That is totally and completely impossible!
It can never be possible because there are a lot of differ-
ences between fish and land creatures, and all of these
changes cannot just happen suddenly, by chance. Let us list
just a few of the things that fish would need to survive on land:
1. Fish use gills to breathe in water. However, on land
they cannot breathe with their gills and so they would die if
they left the water. They would need to have lungs. Let us just
suppose that a fish made up its mind to leave the water and
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