Joel Kontinen
Darwinian stories can be both fascinating and bizarre – at the very same time.
Marine creatures left the sea because they saw food on land. Now New Scientist is telling us that land creatures returned to the sea as the shallow waters were so full of food.
This time it was supposed to be a deer that metamorphosed into a whale.
Thus, in a typical Darwinian scenario, the poor creatures kept on going back and forth until they found their preferred element.
In the early 1980s, evolutionists announced the discovery of Pakicetus, the grandmother of all marine whales, with great fanfare.
They believe that it lived ”52 million years” ago.
A diving Pakicetus made it to the cover of Science.
Later, after they found more bones, they had to acknowledge that Pakicetus was a land animal.
Then in 2011, researchers found a whale jawbone in Antarctica. “Dated” at 49 million years, it almost as old as its assumed land-loving ancestor, leaving far too little time for evolution.
There are other difficulties as well.
Mathematician and philosopher Dr. David Berlinski calculated that a cow-like creature living on dry land would have needed at least 50, 000 morphological changes for a move to the sea.
From skin to the breathing apparatus, almost everything had to be changed if the cow wanted to stay alive in its new watery environment.
Like transforming a car into a submarine, it would have needed an enormous amount of changes, making the entire scenario impossible.
Source:
Barras, Colin. 2018. Why ancient deer returned to the sea and became whales. New Scientist (19 March).
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