[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

[Senator Bedfellow]

A) that's obviously a hypothetical example, and;

B) even if you think he was seriously proposing that, "as monstrous as a whale" is not the same as "is a whale", unless you're going to explain how this is a whale too:

Boeing 737, about the same length as a blue whale - "as monstrous as a whale".

[Right Wing Professor]

Darwin never said whales were descended from bears. He said that he didn't see why natural selection could not accomplish a transformation from a bear to something as monstrous as a whale.

Coulter said, and I quote, "They [evolutionists] say the whale "evolved" when a bear fell in the ocean". No, we don't say that.