Kasz216 said:
highwaystar101 said:
Kasz216 said:
highwaystar101 said:
| Baroque_Dude said:
I understand your point but still the whale hasn't problems.
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It does have problems, the whale is really just a transitional creature. If it was 'created' to live in the sea why would the creator give it lungs when gills would do the job just as well? The lungs are just a constant problem, it has to keep resurfacing, fish don't have to surface.
The cetacean branch of evolution (Dolphins, Whales, porpoises, etc...) all have the same attributes that support that cetacean creatures once lived on land. Genetically they bare far more resemblance to land mammals than they do fish. the Cetacean creatures all fall under the Cetartiodactyla order, which is a group of animals that includes not just whales, dolphins and porpoises but also land mammals such as hippopotamuses. We've even found staged cetacean fossils in Pakistan that show the transition from land mammals to sea mammals.
Just out of interest the attributes that these animals share are defined as...
1. Their need to breathe air from the surface;
2. The bones of their fins, which resemble the jointed hands of land mammals; and
3. The vertical movement of their spines, characteristic more of a running mammal than of the horizontal movement of fish.
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Why wouldn't he give him lungs? I mean... i believe in evolution and all... but your argument here is kinda silly.
I mean why would a creator have to do everything logical and most functional. Why couldn't they be whimsical every now and again?
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My argument isn't silly.
I understand your point and I accept that a creator can be whimsical and outrageous, but my original point was that the attributes that cetacean branch such as whales and dolphins possess are similar attributes to certain land mammals as opposed to fish. We have sufficient evidence to demonstrate the transition from land mammals to water mammals. To me all the evidence supports the fact that whales and dolphins were not created, they evolved from other animals.
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I'm not talking about that argument. I'm talking about the "why would he give them lungs!" argument. If animals were just magically poofed into existance... there is no reason why he wouldn't give some water guys lungs. I would. I'd give land animals gills too.
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Oh, ok. My fault, I know you accept evolution and so you accept the argument of whales going from land to water. You're just playing devils advocate for a side argument, aren't you.
Either way my original point about evolving from land to seas still stands.
