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Message 241 of 443 (782836)
04-29-2016 12:34 PM
Reply to: Message 239 by AlphaOmegakid
04-28-2016 5:26 PM


Re: The Real Evidence of Whale Bones
Hi AOKid,
I think if you look closely at the first cat, the legs are most likley not forming from the pelvis.
Irrelevant. They are legs. That means they have nothing to do with these appendages that you are so sure aren't legs.
If you want to claim that the whale appendages are not legs, I can't help but wonder what they actually are and why they don't show up in any other animal. Supernumerary limbs have nothing to do with anything here.
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Message 242 of 443 (784222)
05-14-2016 4:24 PM


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Message 243 of 443 (795006)
12-03-2016 8:13 PM
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01-02-2012 12:36 PM


Of all the nonsense served up by evolutionists, whale evolution is the most hilarious yarn yet - I love it!

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Message 244 of 443 (795007)
12-03-2016 8:38 PM
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12-03-2016 8:13 PM


Of all the nonsense served up by evolutionists, whale evolution is the most hilarious yarn yet - I love it!
Can you offer any evidence to support your claim?

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Message 245 of 443 (795012)
12-04-2016 12:46 AM
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12-03-2016 8:13 PM


Of all the nonsense served up by evolutionists, whale evolution is the most hilarious yarn yet - I love it!
Thank you for sharing with us your precise and detailed analysis of the issue. It must have taken you many years to attain such a complete mastery of the facts, and yet you have managed to express all the relevant information concerning the morphology, genetics, embryology and fossil record of whales in a mere nineteen words, so that one must truly say that you are outstanding not only in your erudite grasp of your subject matter, but also in the concision with which you express your vast learning. Sir, I salute you.

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Message 246 of 443 (795045)
12-05-2016 12:21 AM
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12-03-2016 8:13 PM


So, no follow-up?
People, note that this is his first and only post. Apparently he registered with the forum just for that.

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Message 247 of 443 (795132)
12-06-2016 3:10 PM
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12-03-2016 8:13 PM


... still waiting.
Nothing? Nothing at all?

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Message 248 of 443 (795533)
12-14-2016 11:51 AM


This just in ...
quote:
A Possible Break in One of Evolution's Biggest Mysteries
How they got there, transforming from four-legged, landlubbing also-rans, patrolling Pakistani riverbanks, to the globe-spanning marine colossus of earth’s history is the sort of question that gets people to pursue Ph.D.’s in paleontology in the first place.
Among mammals, whales really stand out to me for having to have met the most obstacles in their evolution, says Marx. They’re really a poster child of evolution.
... To get a foothold on this dizzying sweep, UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Larry Taylor has decided to probe something smaller. Not the whales themselves, but the barnacles that cling to the animalshitching rides around the planet. As Taylor realized, oxygen isotopes in barnacle shells act as a chemical passport of a whale’s travels, filled with stamps from the world’s various oceans. And humpback-whale barnacles go back millions of years in the fossil record. Taylor hopes to find ancient whale journeys coded in these fossil shellsjourneys that could illuminate the evolution of whales and, perhaps even, why some got so preposterously large.
The atomic inscriptions in other humpback barnacles accurately captured an animal moving from California to Baja. But these measurements (undeniably clever as they are) merely confirm what we already know about whale migration. For Taylor, though, this is just a proof-of-concept. He wants to know where whales were traveling hundreds of thousands, even millions of years agoif they were even traveling at all. Using the isotopes of fossil barnacles stretching back millions of years, and mapping them onto the ancient ocean, Taylor hopes to find out just what the whales of a bygone Earth were up to.
Gigantism isn’t necessarily something that only occurred in the last 3 million years or so, says Monash University paleontologist Felix Marx. But what did change, as far as we can tell, is that all of the little ones suddenly start to disappear. You’ve got a whole range of whales that don’t even exist today.
You’ve got all sorts of stuff that’s just a lot smallerlike, three, four, five meters. And about 3 million years ago or so, as far as we can tell, they all disappear.
If this story is right, it might not have been the only time that the peculiar influence of plate tectonics has guided whale evolution. More than 30 million years ago, when South America divorced Antarctica and the sea spilled over between the two continents, the profound changes to ocean circulation supercharged the ocean with nutrients and plankton, and might have prodded the split between baleen whales and toothed whaleswhich curiously occurs around the same time. Even further back, 50 million years ago the extremely warm climate of the Eocene might have helped ease the whales’ wolf-like ancestor into the tepid water in the first place (according to Michigan paleontologist Philip Gingerich). And, before that, 56 million years ago, it might have been deep-sea volcanoes burning through fossil fuels under the North Atlantic seafloor that released enough methane and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere to set off an extreme spike in global temperaturesa heatwave that spawned a new group of animals that today includes deer, camels and giraffes, but that also included the ancestor of all whales. Understanding biology without geology is impossible, and vice versa.
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Message 249 of 443 (795548)
12-14-2016 2:18 PM
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12-14-2016 11:51 AM


Re: This just in ...
Gigantism isn’t necessarily something that only occurred in the last 3 million years or so, says Monash University paleontologist Felix Marx. But what did change, as far as we can tell, is that all of the little ones suddenly start to disappear. You’ve got a whole range of whales that don’t even exist today.
You’ve got all sorts of stuff that’s just a lot smallerlike, three, four, five meters. And about 3 million years ago or so, as far as we can tell, they all disappear.
Is this supposed to be referring only to mysticetes? There are still a lot of three, four, five, metre whales.

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Message 250 of 443 (795551)
12-14-2016 2:32 PM
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01-02-2012 12:36 PM


The opening message of this topic highlights a serious problem with artwork. Incredibly people still show pictures of Rhodocetus as a fully formed skeleton with a tail fluke. If you look in the following pictures in this thread, you will see they never found those tail vertebrae for Rhodocetus.
Yes, the transitional evidence will scream "evolution" if you turn that evidence into pictures of full skeletons people have drawn with the assumption of evolution in mind, but Phil Gingerich, the founder of Rhodocetus, himself now rejects that it had a tail fluke. Either way, if you believe it did or believe it didn't those pictures are very misleading.
Ambulocetus is also not a full skeleton like shown in the diagram, I think they actually found something like 45% of Ambulocetus, and "add" the rest, by imagination. Conjecturally that is okay if you want to speculate an evolution of whales but like with all of the "transitionals by artwork" they tend to show a very distorted version of the actual facts.
Here is the thread I discussed it, please see message number # 9, remember, I am not attacking evolution as such here, I am just attacking the use of art to mislead people into thinking these fully formed whale-like skeletons are factual, when they simply are not.
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Disclaimer: I'm okay with people saying, "well, this sure looks like it could be an evolution of whales" but I'm not okay with fake drawings of complete skeletons they've never actually ever found, which may well not have had tail flukes and a whale like evolutionary anatomy (or on the way there).

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Message 251 of 443 (795576)
12-14-2016 3:14 PM
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12-14-2016 2:18 PM


Re: This just in ...
Is this supposed to be referring only to mysticetes? There are still a lot of three, four, five, metre whales.
The impression I got was that the Gigantism" occurred due to the environmental conditions of the later ice ages and that most of the smaller whales went extinct.
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Message 252 of 443 (795582)
12-14-2016 3:32 PM
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12-14-2016 3:14 PM


Re: This just in ...
The impression I got was that the Gigantism" occurred due to the environmental conditions of the later ice ages and that most of the smaller whales went extinct.
Yes, but that's evidently not true, which was why I asked if he was actually talking about mysticetes in particular.
I have answered my own question in the affirmative by finding some of his work.

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Message 253 of 443 (795596)
12-14-2016 3:58 PM
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12-14-2016 2:32 PM


The opening message of this topic highlights a serious problem with artwork. Incredibly people still show pictures of Rhodocetus as a fully formed skeleton with a tail fluke. If you look in the following pictures in this thread, you will see they never found those tail vertebrae for Rhodocetus.
Rodhocetus is pictured without a tail fluke in message 1.
Now, you are right that it can be a bit misleading when someone pictures a full skeleton as a fossil without indication of which bits are actually known from fossils. That's why you sometimes see skeletal reconstructions like this:
with different shading used to differentiate between the bits known from fossils and the rest; which is the educated guess of the reconstructor.
If you're complaining about artists reconstructions of fossils as living animals, then of course they have to include speculative elements. There's nothing dishonest about this - even the most complete fossil is not going to tell you how an animal looked in life. You have to fill in the gaps with speculation and conjecture; or it would not be possible to make any artist's impressions.
Now, I do find it annoying that a lot of media presentation prefers the artist's impressions to pictures of the actual fossils; but that's not a problem with artwork - it's a problem of what the media thinks people would find more alluring.
Incidentally, I'm not sure how relevant the terminal caudal vertebrae would be to whether Rodhocetus has a tail fluke. Whale vertebrae don't extend into the flukes. And Google images seems to suggest that the majority of artists reconstruct Rodhocetus without a fluke.

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Message 254 of 443 (803727)
04-04-2017 3:47 AM


The whale tale is one of the funniest yarns concocted by evolutionists: Some land-lubbing, vegetarian deer-like creature supposedly developed a taste for swimming in the ocean and devouring seafood. Its nose somehow ends up on top of its head and its legs somehow turn into flippers. I love it! ... except is reduces the noble pursuit of science to embarrassing quackery. Isn't it interesting what some people are willing to believe?

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Message 255 of 443 (803747)
04-04-2017 8:38 AM
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Did you forget you already posted to this thread in Message 243? It has several responses, none of which you've replied to.
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