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HARUN YAHYA

employing the same logic and taking these species’ similar bills and
eggs as their starting point, would declare the two to be related. Yet the
platypus is a mammal, and ducks are birds, and the theory of evolution
can establish no relationship between them. Similarly, Pakicetus inachus,

which evolutionists declare to be a primitive whale, is a unique species
with its own particular anatomical features. Even Carroll, a foremost
authority on vertebrate paleontology, states that the Mesonychid fam-
ily, in which Pakicetus should be included, “was the combination of
these changes.” 46 Even prominent evolutionists such as Gould accept
that such “mosaic creatures” cannot be regarded as transitional forms.
In an article titled “The Overselling of Whale Evolution,” the cre-
ationist writer Ashby L. Camp explains the invalidity of the claim that
the Archaeocetae (whose Latin name means “archaic whales”)— part
of the class Mesonychid, of which land mammals such as Pakicetus are
members—are in fact whales:
The reason [why] evolutionists are confident that mesonychids gave rise to ar-
chaeocetes, despite the inability to identify any species in the actual lineage, is
that known mesonychids and archaeocetes have some similarities. These simi-
larities, however, are not sufficient to make the case for ancestry, especially in
light of the vast differences. The subjective nature of such comparisons is evi-
dent from the fact so many groups of mammals and even reptiles have been
suggested as ancestral to whales. 47