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phological differences between the oldest whales and such extinct
land mammals as Pakicetus and Ambulocetus, which are suggested as
the whale's terrestrial ancestors. On the other hand, the "adaptive

processes" proposed by evolutionists for "the evolution of the whale"
constitute an unscientific scenario based on Lamarckian reasoning.
Sea mammals possess exceedingly distinct features. To claim that
these creatures underwent the dozens of different adaptations neces-
sary for the transition from land to sea as the result of morphological
deformities brought about by random mutations is itself a major prob-
lem for the theory of evolution. The theory is quite unable to explain

how such a transition might have come about. In 1982, the evolution-
ist science writer Francis Hitching said this on the subject:
The problem for Darwinians is in trying to find an explanation for the
immense number of adaptations and mutations needed to change a
small and primitive earthbound mammal, living alongside and dom-
inated by dinosaurs, into a huge animal with a body uniquely shaped
so as to be able to swim deep in the oceans, a vast environment pre-
viously unknown to mammals . . . all this had to evolve in at most
five to ten million years—about the same time as the relatively trivial
evolution of the first upright walking apes into ourselves. 64

Pakicetus

Ambulocetus

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