David Pearce misleads his audience on coelacanth evolution
David Pearce is a British Christadelphian old earth creationist whose attacks on evolution as shown by his frankly pedestrian Evidence for Design follow the usual argument from personal incredulity, where complexity is deemed too difficult for evolution, a nonsensical claim as any one familiar just with the ability of evolutionary algorithms to effect complex design without direct human involvement shows. Recently, Christadelphian Videos uploaded a video The Awesome Amazing ... World of Fish which took the usual "awe at nature means intelligent designer" approach, one that would completely unimpress biologists specialising in the study of fish whose acceptance of their evolutionary origins in no way diminishes their awe at the splendour of nature. Where Pearce went dreadfully wrong was in his assertion that the coelacanth was a 'living fossil'. What's even more damning is that a 1991 book would have shown him this was wrong.
