National Geographic News Photo Gallery: Rare "Prehistoric" Shark Photographed Alive

National Geographic News Photo Gallery: Rare "Prehistoric" Shark Photographed Alive

Fascinating. Another "living fossil." Tell me, at what point is a creature evolved enough that it is no longer beneficial for point mutations to survive natural selection? I mean, we have the coelacanth, once thought to be an intermediate form of fish which had an actual, primitive, though non-functioning "lung." We have the horseshoe crab, which hasn't effectively changed in allegedly 425 million years. The cockroach, everyones favorite houseguest, has been with us in its present form for an alleged 350 million years.

Even in plant life, the Wollemi Pine was once thought extinct for over 90 million years was found thriving in the Australian outback.

With so many "perfect" organisms -- in the sense that no further natural selection was able to improve on the organism substantially enough to survive the original -- in full "bloom" so long ago, what's taking the rest of us so long?

Or, is it more possible that God actual did create the coelacanth, the cockroach, the horseshoe crab, the wollemi pine tree, you and me specifically?

Evolution can't account for living fossils. Genesis can.