Ping!
Science is going about its business as it always does.
This is just an example of how science gets things done — there will probably be a lot of debate on what this is and how it fits into the overall scheme of TToE. It is usually the MSM that screws up.
Certainly not an indictment against much of anything.
A hippo is absolutely ballpark for the sort of whale ancestor which evolosers believe in and you do not see hippos swimming or wading out into deep water since they're bright enough to know what would happen to them the first minute they did.
Proof of Creation: Moses is attacked by a ferocious Velociraptor,
thus proving that dinosaurs did indeed exist only a few thousand years ago.
The BBC story concluded, "Darwin forecast the transition from land to sea via fresh water in his seminal work On the Origin of Species, published 150 years ago this year." Darwin's predictions are still unfulfilled. According to Benton, "It is hard to imagine how [great blue whales and dolphins] evolved from terrestrial mammal ancestors, and yet that is what happened." Paleontologist Edwin Colbert stated what creationists have been saying for decades--whales have always been uniquely designed ("adapted") as whales and appear abruptly in the fossil record.Benton's full quote reads, "Looking at a great blue whale...or a fast-swimming dolphin, it is hard to imagine how they evolved from terrestrial mammal ancestors, and yet that is what happened." He's not saying that in the face of all the evidence it's still hard to imagine, as Sherwin implies; he's saying that the relationship isn't apparent to the casual observer.
And by using the same tense for Colbert's quote as for the rest of the article, Sherwin would like us to believe the BBC story contained the quote. In fact, Colbert's quote is from a book written in 1955, well before the major discoveries in the sequence of whale evolution.
Yep definitely a pinniped. Sinbad would really like it.
Here's his little brother.
