Whales descended from Deer-like critters?

On December 20, 2007 in In the News, Science Related

This just in, CNN is smoking crack! Okay, so I did my daily surfing of the tubes and found that CNN has published a new article, “Whales may have descended from small deer-like critter.” Brilliant, I mean, absolutely friggin’ brilliant! To be honest, I was already convinced of the relationship. I mean, deer are heavy, and so are whales. Not to mention they both have faces.

So on to the article itself. The earth-shaking discovery came by way of our brilliant Dr. Thewissen, an anatomy professor at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. Now, you may be thinking that this is all a bunch of crap, but this was published in the journal Nature - it has to be true.

Now, I wasn’t convinced until I heard the irrefutable evidence put forth. Are you ready for this? “The key finding connecting Indohyus to the whale is its thickened ear bone, something only seen in cetaceans.” Yes, kids, you see, this deer-like critter had a fat hearing-bone, so that means she had whale babies.

I feel so bad that these people go through years of schooling, spend dozens of hours working on tests, and all they can give us is “This thingy has a big ear bone, so it must be connected to this other thingy.” I mean, that’s like me saying “A fat man robbed me!” and then somebody else saying, “Hey, I know a fat man…let’s go arrest him!”

Another thing, do these “scientists” feel that the ear bone refused to evolve while the body evolved as wildly as they suggest? I mean, the body tossed on several tons, the tongue became as heavy as an elephant, their nose moved up to the top of their head, their respiratory disconnected and then reconnected in a completely different configuration, their hooves feel off and they grew fins. I mean, come on, all of this happened and the friggin’ ear-bone didn’t change a single bit? You’ve got to be kidding me! Get a brain, people. Dag’um!

This crap reminds me of the Pakicetus findings many years ago. They found a couple fragments of the skull, a tooth or so, and drew this elaborate picture of a wolve-like creature swimming in water, hunting down fishies with its webbed-feet. (The darkened bones of the skull represent what was actually found)

For more on whale-evolution, you can check out the following articles:

1. The Overselling of Whale Evolution
2. A Whale Fantasy from National Geographic
3. Refuting Evolution, Chapter 5 “Whale Evolution?”

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