Fraud Suggested in Whale Evolution Scenario

The assumed intermediate fossils don’t seem to be what they are alleged to be.

Museums and textbooks often claim there is substantial evidence for the supposed evolutionary link between land animals and whales. The three fossils most important to this alleged transition are Pakicetus, Ambulocetus, and Rodhocetus. Dr. Carl Werner, author of Evolution: the Grand Experiment, decided to investigate these claims, and what he found is disturbing—at the least, there is a lot of wishful thinking; at the most, downright fraud.

Pakicetus (artist’s conception: left-top) is an incomplete fossil that was described by Dr. Philip Gingerich as being that of a whale-like creature. The artist’s conception of this animal made it to the cover of the journal Science in 1983. However, when the rest of Pakicetus was found and the evidence published in 2001, there was no blowhole, no flippers (only hooves), no whale neck or anything that could link this land animal to a whale. Yet, the American Museum of Natural History in New York and London’s Natural History Museum have continued to display a reconstruction of this fossil which shows a blowhole. In 2009 Dr. Gingerich still claimed Pakicetus should continue to be classed with whales, based on its ear-bone. But the ear-bone is not like that of a whale.

Ambulocetus (artist’s conception: left-bottom) is described by evolutionists as a link between Pakicetus and Rodhocetus. Dr. Hans Thewissen said there were eight characteristics of this animal that showed it was an ancestor of whales. Dr. Thewissen has supplied models of Ambulocetus to museums showing a blowhole in the snout of its skull. Yet, there is no fossil evidence of a blowhole. Dr. Werner adds, “All eight characters he reported as whale features are disturbingly non-whale features.”

Rodhocetus (artist’s conception: right) was supposedly an aquatic animal in the process of evolving front flippers and possessing a whale-like tail and fluke (horizontal fins). Dr. Werner says he talked to Dr. Gingerich, the paleontologist who discovered this fossil, and pointed out the lack of skeletal evidence for a tail or flippers. Dr. Gingerich admitted there was none. He then admitted he now thought the creature had neither of the critical whale features. Yet, the tail and flippers are still displayed in many articles about this animal.

In Monday’s post we mentioned some of the daunting difficulties a dinosaur would have faced in converting itself into a bird. The transition of a land mammal to a whale would probably not be quite as difficult seeing as they are both mammals, but there would be formidable challenges nevertheless. And if a land animal evolving into a whale seems difficult enough, according to Wikipedia “mammals have returned to the water in at least nine separate evolutionary lineages”!!!  So, atheistic evolutionists must believe in nine separate, unconnected miracles involving land mammals evolving into water creatures—and all this without God.

One can appreciate why secular researchers are tempted to engage in activities involving stretching the truth or fabricating “evidence,” Substantial evidence to back up their theory is simply not there. They do the best they can with what they have, even going overboard at times. For the non-scientist, Occam’s razor ought to be the rule to follow. Occam’s razor states that “among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.” With the absence of convincing transitional living animals and fossils and the genetic difficulties in evolving from one type of creature into an entirely different type, the belief God created each kind of living organism separately is the more simple and logical explanation. 

Perhaps Occam‘s razor doesn‘t work when it comes to sin and salvation. Many people find it difficult to believe God would sacrifice His only Son on a cross for the sins of the misbehaving people He created. But  then we have to take God‘s Word for it. Therefore, “ ‘Come now, let us settle the matter,’ says the Lord. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool’ “ (Isaiah 1:18). 

Reference: Don Batten, “Whale Evolution Fraud,” Creation Ministries

(Illustrations of Pakicetus, Ambulocetus, and Rodhocetus from Wikipedia, by Nobu Tamura, Nobu Tamura and Pavel Riha, respectively.)

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