[Right Wing Professor]

Your arguments are not particularly persuasive or effective when they merely consist of fighting hyperbole with hyperbole of your own...

I know it's hard to believe anyone could publish something that stupid, but let me quote directly from p. 229 of Godless

The evolutionists' proof is their abilioty to concoct a story. They say the whale "evolved" when a bear fell in the ocean.

Apology accepted, by the way.

[js1138]

On that same page Ms Coulter repeats the lie that there are no transitional fossils.

[Zeppo]

No apology needed or forthcoming. You have completely misunderstood my comment. You wrote, "In the odd times she actually bothers with details or hard facts, she writes things like 'evolutionists think whales are bears that fell in the ocean'."

You disparage her for supposedly not bothering with details or hard facts, but then you go ahead and give an example which is neither. Rather, the example that you gave is an example of her use of hyperbole. Was that absolutely the only example of "details or hard facts" given in her book? You couldn't find any facts whatsoever in the book? Doubtful. Rather, you chose to answer her hyperbole with some of your own, which is equally silly. So, I stand by my original comment.

[Heartlander]

I know it's hard to believe anyone could publish something that stupid...

In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, 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.
-Darwin

[magellan]

The evolutionists' proof is their ability to concoct a story. They say the whale "evolved" when a bear fell in the ocean.

I do recall a show on PBS or Discovery Channel, where it speculated on the origin of dolphins, and indeed the thought was land mammals who lived by the sea (think sea lions or similar creatures) eventually evolved into pure sea dwellers.

This particular program speculated humans evolved from cetaceans, not apes, because of the way our arm and leg hair grows (in a streamline). Seriously.

Personally, I don't think Ann is too far off the mark. But I think it was a dog, not a bear that fell into the water. Sea lions seem a lot like dogs, and the few dolphins I have had the pleasure of meeting remind me more of a Labrador Retriever than a bear.

Evolution? Maybe. Or maybe God knew there would be seafarers someday, and they would need friendly animals around.

Of course, no doubt a big wooly mammoth fell into the ocean and evolved into the blue whale.