Is there Design in the Universe or is it all Random Chance?
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Living fossils
There is a potential problem for those who think that the Earth is millions of years old! If you assume that evolution is operating and natural selection is at work then it must be a difficulty that quite a few creatures and plants are the same now as their fossils.
Plants
- Cycads
- Ginkgo tree (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis)
- Sciadopitys tree (Sciadopityaceae)
- Wollemia tree (Araucariaceae)
Reptiles
Amphibians and Fish
- Purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis)
- Coelacanth (the lobed-finned Latimeria menadoensis and Latimeria chalumnae)
- Queensland lungfish (Neoceratodus fosteri)