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To: Junior
Nice story. However, the bones shown of pakicetus and ichtyolestes show absolutely no proof of their being ancestors of whales. First of all, no bones of whales are shown for comparison. To consider the article in post#29 (for which I show the pictures in post#87) as proof of anything shows a lot of wishful thinking on your part and that of lexcorp.
286 posted on 02/22/2002 4:42:20 AM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
Nice story. However, the bones shown of pakicetus and ichtyolestes show absolutely no proof of their being ancestors of whales. First of all, no bones of whales are shown for comparison. To consider the article in post#29 (for which I show the pictures in post#87) as proof of anything shows a lot of wishful thinking on your part and that of lexcorp.

From Creationist Mindblocks to Whale Evolution:

The earliest known whales, Himalayacetus and Pakicetus are presently known only from cranial material, so they are not much help. However, the position of the inner ear bones in Pakicetus are a perfect intermediate between those of land mammals and the rotated ones of cetaceans (Thewissen & Hussain, 1993), not to mention the fact that the tympanic bullae are composed of dense bone as those of cetaceans (Gingerich, et al, 1983).

[Emphasis mine]

Of course, to your limited mind this is no proof.  You could look at the individual frames of a movie and claim there is no such thing as a moving picture.  Your programming makes you incapable of seeing the forest for the trees.

294 posted on 02/22/2002 5:43:16 AM PST by Junior
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