The Institute for Creation Research

Evolutionists consider the freshwater paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) of the class Actinopterygii to be a prehistoric creature, a primitive bony fish “50 million years” older than the dinosaurs—making the freshwater paddlefish “350 million years” old. They look bizarre, and they have always been paddlefish.   If you looked at picture [sic] of a paddlefish, Protosephurus from the Early Cretaceous of China, you could easily see that the group has changed little in appearance over the past 120 million years.¹ This alleged “prehistoric”...