CONSIDER THIS: A Whale of a Way to Start 2023
With less than a handful of exceptions, mammals are all land-bound creatures. The biggest of the few exceptions is the Humpback Whale. It meets all the qualifications for being a mammal, yet it spends its entire life in the ocean.
Another way to spell “Random Mutation” is C-H-A-N-C-E. (Screenshot from YouTube).
The conventional evolutionary wisdom ascribes the origin of the Humpback Whale to a much smaller wolf-sized (or was it a bear?) land mammal hundreds of millions of years ago that decided to take a swim. That swim lasted a loooonnnnnnggggggg time!
Over the ensuing epochs of time, natural selection brought about a huge series of profound changes. Those that aided the evolving mammal to survive and thrive in an aquatic environment were retained, while those that didn’t were not repeated.
Through multiple intermediate stages of evolutionary development, the process ultimate produced what we know today as the largest creature in the ocean, one that weighs 40 tons and more.
But is that explanation actually reasonable, given what was necessary biologically and when it was necessary in order for the original comparatively small land-based mammal to evolve into the immense Humpback Whale?
The answer is no, not by any logical consideration of what had to happen and when in order to make it possible, according to Paul Nelson, Professor of Philosophy of Biology at Biola University, and Richard Sternberg, Evolutionary Scientist at the Biologic Institute.
Nelson and Sternberg explain what that is the case in the following 8:56 video was produced by the John 10:10 Project: