Page 88 - The Transitional Form Dilemma

THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

A drawing
of ambulocetus
The Basilosaurus fossil
shown in the imaginary
drawing to the side is
one of the largest
known whales.

In the whales’ imaginary evolu-
tionary tree, the second extinct creature after
Pakicetus is Ambulocetus [Latin for “walking
whale’] natans. This fossil, first announced in an article
in Science magazine in 1994, was a land-dweller which
evolutionists, using the same technique of forcing the facts, seek
to turn into a whale.
The truth, again, is that there is no evidence that either Pakicetus or
Ambulocetus has any relationship to whales. But after these two species,
the evolutionary diagram moves on to sea mammals and lists extinct
whale species of Archaeoceti such as Protocetus and Rodhocetus. These
creatures are indeed extinct sea-dwelling mammals. Yet there are enor-
mous anatomical differences between them and Pakicetus and
Ambulocetus. Their fossil remains clearly show that these are not transi-
tional forms linking the species together in any series:
Ambulocetus is a four-legged land-dweller. Its backbone ends at
the pelvis, to which are connected powerful leg bones. This is the typi-
cal anatomy of a land mammal. Whales, however, have no pelvis, and
the backbone continues uninterrupted down to the tail. Basilosaurus,

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