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116 Origin of the Marine Mammals

cal ly op posed to the tran si tion from form chan ges. We have to as sume that
wa ter to dry land, re turn ing to a ma - the re turn to the sea took place not
rine en vi ron ment as the re sult of a through a long-term, slow tran si tion
sec ond proc ess of ev o lu tion. as claimed by Darwinism, but in mo -
men tary leaps. Paleontologists to day
However, this the o ry is based on no
lack suf fi cient in for ma tion as re gards
pa le on to log i cal ev i dence—and is al -
which mam mal spe cies whales are
so log i cal ly in con sist ent.
evolved from. 122
Mammals are re gard ed as the top
It's dif fi cult in deed to im ag ine
rung of the ev o lu tion a ry lad der.
how, as the re sult of any ev o lu tion a -
That be ing so, the ques tion aris es of
ry proc ess, a small ter res tri al mam -
how these crea tures moved back to a
mal could be come a whale 30 me ters
ma rine en vi ron ment. A sub se quent
(98 feet) long and weigh ing 60 tons..
ques tion is that of how they adapt ed
On this sub ject, all that Darwinists
to that en vi ron ment even bet ter than
are able to do is, as in the ac count
fish. Dolphins, which are mam mals
pub lished in National Geographic
and thus pos sess lungs, are even bet -
mag a zine cit ed be low, to ex er cise
ter adapt ed to their en vi ron ment
their im ag i na tions:
than fish, which breathe in wa ter.
It is per fect ly ob vi ous that the im - The whale's as cend an cy to sov er eign
ag i nary ev o lu tion of ma rine mam - size ap par ent ly be gan six ty mil lion
years ago when hairy, four-leg ged
mals can not be ex plained in terms of
mam mals, in search of food or sanc tu -
mu ta tions and nat u ral se lec tion. One
ary, ven tured in to wa ter. As eons
ar ti cle pub lished in GEO mag a zine
passed, chan ges slow ly oc curred. Hind
re fers to the or i gin of the blue whale,
legs dis ap peared, front legs changed
stat ing the de spair ing po si tion of
in to flip pers, hair gave way to a thick
Darwinism on the sub ject:
smooth blan ket of blub ber, nos trils
Like blue whales, the bod i ly struc tures moved to the top of the head, the tail
and or gans of oth er mam mals liv ing in broad ened in to flukes, and in the buoy -
the sea al so re sem ble those of fish. ant wa ter world the body be came enor -
Their skel e tons al so bear sim i lar i ties to mous. 123
those of fish. In whales, the rear limbs
Bearing in mind the ad ap ta tions
that we can re fer to as legs ex hib it ed a
that a mam mal, us ing lungs to
re verse de vel op ment and did not reach
breathe with, would have to un der -
full growth Yet there is not the slight -
go in or der to thrive in a ma rine en -
est in for ma tion about these an i mals'

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