@FBM,
neologist wrote:Go back to page 16 of this thread if you wish to see the battlefield.
FBM wrote:OK, I did that and saw that the question was summarily dealt with, and not to your favor. Now what?
How closely did you read? Or were you simply swayed by the group?
Posted by farmer
herefarmerman wrote:you suffer from a Creationist view that requires ALL morphological modifications to have occurred AT ONCE. That wasn't the case at all with whales. The fossil record is the best source of gradualistic morphological changes. The genetic and embryological records of existing cetaceasns are merely "record keeping" of what has clearly happened From the Paleocene onward.
But in the case of the blowhole, simultaneous modifications are an absolute necessity. A perfectly developed blowhole would be fatal without breach birth, for example.
Posted by farmer
here.(bold italics mine)
farmerman wrote: . . .Evolution is often, as Miller says
1Being at the right place at the right time
2 TAking whats already there and doing something new with it.
Thus the whale. The only thing I think we should be more considering of is that one of the early "LAWS" of evolution candidacy as verbalized by RAup is that " being a candidate for evolution rather than extinction is usually directly proportional to the number of species in ones genus. So Indohyus may have been a genus with a number of species, each with a minor niche adaptation that made one or more of them learn to love being a MARINE ANIMAL.
We haven't found all these "cousin" fossils as of yet so we cant, in a strait face stand around and pour all of our evolutionarily needed traits onto little Indohyus. He just has about 5 or 6 adaptations that are more precetacean than not (and his fossils were clearly indicating a marine affinity) in the ancient Indian sub continent alongside the nasty firey landside conditions that Indohyus may have learned to escape.
So, I ask how the links escaped death by drowning or strangulation?