[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Okay, on further research, she got it from Darwin directly. Seems like no one here is really very familiar with Darwin's theory after all. Except for Schlafly, that is.

In his Origin of Species, Darwin notes a case of a black bear swimming for hours with its mouth agape, catching aquatic insects much as a whale might feed. "I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale," he speculated.

The ridicule and attacks engendered by this passage grew to such a pitch that Darwin pared it down and then deleted it altogether in later editions.

Although Darwin got the particulars wrong, his swimming-bear scenario was not far off the mark. Modern molecular biologists say that they now have the unassailable evidence to track whales' origins among four-legged mammals.

[Alacarte]

"Although Darwin got the particulars wrong, his swimming-bear scenario was not far off the mark. Modern molecular biologists say that they now have the unassailable evidence to track whales' origins among four-legged mammals."

Regardless, using darwin to attack evolution is the height of dishonesty. It is like pointing to a flaw in the kitty-hawk to argue against the theory of flight.