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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

more problematic since morphological and molecular analyses reach very dif-
ferent conclusions. Indeed, based on the conventional interpretation of the
morphological and behavioral data set, the echolocating toothed whales (about
67 species) and the filter-feeding baleen whales (10 species) are considered as
two distinct monophyletic groups. . . . On the other hand, phylogenetic analy-
ses of DNA and amino acid sequences contradict this long-accepted taxonomic
subdivision. One group of toothed whales, the sperm whales, appears to be
more closely related to the morphologically highly divergent baleen whales
than to other odontocetes. 52
In short, marine mammals contradict every evolutionist scheme
into which they are sought to be included.

The Impossibility of any Transition from
The Impossibility of any Transition from
Land to Sea
Land to Sea
As Nature magazine science writer Henry Gee expresses it:
The intervals of time that separate the fossils are so huge that we cannot say
anything definite about their possible connection through ancestry and de-
scent. 53

There is a generational difference of millions of years separating
the fossils claimed to represent the ancestors of marine mammals. Even
despite documentary records, it is very difficult to establish the identity
of any human’s great-great- great-grandmother, and this
sometimes cannot be established at all. For that reason,

A HIPPOPOTAMUS

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