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The point he is making has nothing to do with there being fossils of all the different types of dogs.
The point is that if you took skeletons from all the breeds of dogs and lined them up You could state that they were proof of the Saint Bernard, Alaskan Malamute, Grey Hound and Grand Pyrenees dogs all evolved from a Chihuahua......
That kind of contradicts this"
John 1:3New International Version (NIV)
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
Did Whales come from land creatures or did they come from water creatures?
From this land:
LOL. Actually, all life came forth from WATER as Scientists learned last year. God told us the SAME thing in Genesis 1:21. Science and History AGREE. We have found God's Truth which changes NOT. In the last days, God is going to pour out His Spirit of Truth upon ALL flesh Act 2:17 through the discoveries of Science. Otherwise, atheists agnostics and phonies will not believe. Amen?
Science has the opposite effect of Faith. It calls on people to
trust only what they can see and ignore the Spirit that calls
on them to to treat others well only for it's own sake, not for
financial gain. All that science can offer about God is already
here with no further research needed.
From what I've read on the subject, modern day whales evolved from a terrestrial animal around 50 million years ago.
Amen, IF we were living 3,000 years ago, but God told us He was going to pour out His Spirit upon ALL flesh in the last days before Jesus returns. Joe 2:28 Act 2:17
Can you tell us HOW God is going to pour out His Spirit of Truth upon atheists, agnostics, and scientists? I didn't know either until last year when Science discovered that all life came from WATER. www.smithsonianmag.com/.../behold-luca-last-universal-common-ancestor-life-earth-...
Then I remembered that God told us 3k years ago that "every living creature that moveth" was created and brought forth from WATER. Gen 1:21 At first, science worshipers/proclaimers resisted, then went silent since NO ancient man could have known and correctly wrote Gen 1:21. It's testable proof of God and also proof that we are currently alive in the last days of this Earth when the discoveries of Science will confirm what God told us in Genesis chapter 1. God Bless you
AS both a Christian and a scientist I find your statement to be both ill informed and rather insulting.
Whales, were historically land dwelling animals. Many people have difficulty distinguishing them from fish. Their morphological differences come from the differences in their evolutionary history, and the difference in how they came to be sea dwelling.
It is fact, some people just need time to become aware of it.
First, there is no reason or need for a dog-like land animal doing very well on land to enter a more hostile environment and become a sea creature. That shoots sown a evo staple---natural selection.
Second, there is no genetic way a leg can become fin
As far as I've seen with my own eyes, fact. I've studied geology for over a decade. I've seen countless fossils, still in their respective rock. I've studied countless rock formations, I've worked with many independent researchers of multiple fields. And it all points toward the fossil succession being fact.
I actually have family and close friends who either have, or still doubt the existence of things like the fossil succession. Typically though they don't go out of their way to study rocks (most people don't care much about rocks), and just couldn't know what's out there.
Textbooks can only show so much in their depictions and can only explain so much in the confines of their bindings. The internet too is limited, in that, you cant study rocks over the internet. Its like taking an online class for something related to the outdoors. It really just doesn't do it justice.
So, I am not mad at them or anything like that. For people coming from a theological background, and people coming from the church, the fossil succession and more broadly, the theory of evolution is a pretty hot topic that gets people fueled up. And it is no surprise to me that there is that friction and opposition from within the church.
But if I were to guess. If more people did go out and were to invest in a sledge hammer, a couple rock hammers, a bottle of water and a peanut butter sandwich...
More people would, without a doubt, accept the existence of the fossil succession. Maybe not everyone but surely most would. I couldn't imagine the conflict would go on long before people started looking at Gods creation in new ways.
Whales actually are very successful in the ocean. It isn't "more hostile" to them. As a matter of fact, it is mankind, land creatures, that are really the only predator over whales today.
Fact or supposition?
2 of your best known fossil experts, Gould and Mayr, reject fossil succession.
Here is a statement from Mayr: "Wherever we look at the living biota...discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent...The discontinuities arr even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear in the fossil record suddenly not connected by a series of intermediates."
Gould says basically the same thing.
Gould also says, "I regard the failure to find a clear record in life's history as the most puzzling fact of the fossil record...we have sought to impose a pattern that we hoped to find on a world that does not really display it."
Of course the sea is not hostile for a whale, that is their natural environment, but it would be very hostile to a land animal, especially as it it transforming.
And, from a morphological stance, the whale fin really isnt a whole lot different than any other 5 digit mammalian hand or foot.
http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/otago123425.jpg
Of course the sea is not hostile for a whale, that is their natural environment, but it would be very hostile to a land animal, especially as it it transforming.
And, from a morphological stance, the whale fin really isnt a whole lot different than any other 5 digit mammalian hand or foot.
http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/otago123425.jpg
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