After reading this article on Yahoo News today, I could not help myself, I have to make a public comment on it.
The article claims that evidence has come to light that whales were once land mammals. Apparently a fossil has been discovered that shows s a momma whale with her unborn baby whale.
They claim this fossil shows that whales used to give birth on land and so therefore is evidence of evolution.
The ‘evidence’they are excited about is that this poor baby whale was positioned with the head first, instead of tail-first as they are normally born.
The conclusion these people are jumping to is that obviously a whale cannot be born head first in the water, as it would drown, therefore, whales used to give birth on land. The article also mentioned that head-first is the preferred method of birth for land mammals.
I guess whales are exempt from the unfortunate occurrence of breech births. Poor Momma Whale, who may have even died from this birth complication ( since we all know whales still have not developed thumbs or hands to aid in a breech birth), is now going to be hijacked into being a poster child, or poster mother if you will, for evolution.
That is insult to injury.
