Whale Evolution: Good Evidence for Darwin? | Long Story Short, Ep. 2 | Discovery Science (Video – Animation)
by arigelab November 7, 2020 · Alt. Science / Animation / DNA / Human Origins / Humour / Perception Bias
Content Source/Owner: Discovery Science
Video direct url: https://youtu.be/wq_oYftA2ow
Duration: 10 min
This video was published on Apr 23, 2020.
Video Intro:
Darwinists often point to the whale fossil record as one of the best examples of an evolutionary transition. But is it?
Charles Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species: “I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.”
Bears turning into whales? Scientists today disagree, instead claiming that other land animals were the real precursors to today’s whales.
“Just think of all the parameters that would have to be modified,” says biologist Richard Sternberg, “and then multiply that by, I don’t know — a thousandfold, or more than that. That’s the scale of the problem that you’re dealing with.”
“Long Story Short,” is a new occasional video series that compresses key points in the debate between Darwinism and intelligent design into a very welcome format: concise, accessible, and funny.
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Be sure to check out episode 1 in the Long Story Short series, “Is Homology Evidence for Evolution?” https://youtu.be/lk1gDk1wGhQ
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