[gore3000]

"You didn't even read the freakin' article, you dolt, or you wouldn't have made the inane comment about whales evolving from coyotes, or vice versa.

Since you are presumably such a genius perhaps you can explain to all of us how lexcorps article and the bonus of the top of 2 whale heads, one coyote head and two partial skeletons of land animals prove that whales evolved from land animals. Can you give an explanation or can you only insult? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Junior]

Okay. First off, the coyote head was for scale (you know, the practice where you put something people know next to something people don't know so they can get an idea of how big it is).

Now, as for the two whale-critters in there, if one were to actually research cetacian evolution (something I understand is against your religion/programming), one would see these critters bear a strong resemblance to more whale-like aquatic critters, who bear a strong resemblance to more recent, even more whale-like aquatic critters, who bear a really strong resemblance to modern whales. Now, the fossils of these two critters are very much older than the fossils of any of the later critters that resemble them (following so far? If not, get your programmer to explain the big words). And, these fossils have legs. Now, from the fossil matrix (stuff around the fossil), and the shape and location of the appendages, these fossils were quite evidently semi-aquatic (that means they spent time on both land and in the water). The fossils that resemble them and come later in the fossil record (the fossils don't appear side-by-side, but in distinct layers in the rocks) are much more aquatic (live in the water). Now, all these fossils from the land critters to modern whales can be put into a sequence and paleontologists (the, what you would call "spawn of Satan" folks that study fossils) can trace changes in anatomy over time (the movement of the nostrils farther and farther back on the head, the gradual disappearance of the hind legs and the changes to the front legs and tail, etc.). Now, they can draw one of two conclusions:

1) Each of the younger fossils represents a much more aquatically-adapted descendant of one of the older species.

2) God pops in every now and then to zap a new species into existence.

Now, I understand the illustrated Bible your programmer input into you has pictures of God zapping critters into existence (I know mine does), and I know you are incapable of moving beyond your programming, being a simple looping algorythm and not a full-blown AI, so I don't expect any of this will affect any discussion with you in the least.

I know, I know:

"Slime, slime, slime, slime. Wonderful slime! Glorious slime!"