Whale Evolution

In the first edition of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin speculated that the whale evolved from the bear: “In North America, the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. ... I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale” (p. 567). Today most evolutionists believe that the whale evolved either from a Mesonyx, a small, hairy, four-legged mammal similar to a wolf, or from a similar creature called a Sinonyx. The whale evolution chart at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle depicts the entire whale family evolving from a wolf-like animal, and there is a mythical reconstruction of the Mesonyx at the British Museum of Natural History. Consider the following from National Geographic magazine: “The whale’s ascendancy to sovereign size apparently began sixty million years ago when hairy, four-legged mammals, in search of food or sanctuary, ventured into the water. As eons passed, changes slowly occurred: hind legs disappeared, front legs changed into flippers, hair gave way to a thick, smooth blanket of blubber, nostrils moved to the top of the head, the tail broadened into flukes, and in the buoyant water world the body became enormous” (National Geographic, Dec. 1976). Evolutionary fairy tales aside, consider how miraculous it would be for a wolf or any such creature to evolve into the 13 families and 79 species of whales, from the fin-less porpoise measuring four feet long to the blue whale measuring 100 feet. The latter weighs 360,000 pounds, which is the equivalent of 2,500 people or 4,140 wolves! Its tongue is the size and weight of an African elephant; its heart is the size of a small car and pumps 2,640 gallons of blood (Carl Werner, Evolution: The Grand Experiment, Vol. 1. p. 40). The blue whale has to eat a million calories a day, which is equivalent to about 1,000 banana splits. Evolutionists tell us that the blue whale evolved from a wolf-like land animal, and they even have the gall to say that they are “the rational people.”

(Friday Church News Notes, May 23, 2014, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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