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The oldest known
fossil bat, found in
Wyoming in the
United States. 50
million years old,
there is no
difference between
this fossil and bats
alive today.

The Origin of Marine Mammals

Whales and dolphins belong to the order of marine mammals known
as Cetacea. These creatures are classified as mammals because, just like land-
dwelling mammals, they give live birth to their young and nurse them, they
have lungs to breathe with, and they regulate their body temperature. For
evolutionists, the origin of marine mammals has been one of the most
difficult issues to explain. In many evolutionist sources, it is asserted that
the ancestors of cetaceans left the land and evolved into marine mammals
over a long period of time. Accordingly, marine mammals followed a path
contrary to the transition from water to land, and underwent a second
evolutionary process, returning to the water. This theory both lacks
paleontological evidence and is self-contradictory. Thus, evolutionists have
been silenced on this issue for a long time.
However, an evolutionist hype about the origin of marine mammals
broke out in the 90's, argued to be based on some new fossil findings of the
80's like Pakicetus and Ambulocetus. These evidently quadrupedal and
terrestrial extinct mammals were alleged to be the ancestors of whales and
thus many evolutionist sources did not hesitate to call them "walking
whales." (In fact the full name, Ambulocetus natans, means "walking and
swimming whale.") Popular means of evolutionist indoctrination further
vulgarized the story. National Geographic in its November 2001 issue,
finally declared the full evolutionist scenario on the "Evolution of Whales."
Nevertheless, the scenario was based on evolutionist prejudice, not
scientific evidence.

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