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In regard to your comment:
"For example, your continued assertion that Pakicetus was nothing but a terrestrial mammal and not a whale does not address the reality that there are a number of characteristics that like it to the artiodactyls (they descended from) and to later cetaceans. Pakicetus stands at the water's edge and the whales that followed changed as they went into that water."
Are you aware that one could make a case that even a human has "characteristics that like it to the artiodactyls and later cetaceans"?
The point is that Thewissen, Williams, Roe, and Hussain recognized the truth when they found it.
"Pakecetids were terrestrial mammals, no more amphilbious than a tapir."
'Skeletons of terrestrial cetaceans and the relationship of whales to artiodactyles'
J.G.M. Thewissen, E.M. Williams, L.J. Roe, S.T. Hussain
Nature/Vol 413 / 20 September 2001 / www.nature.com
Since you obviously believe that this is not really what they meant to say and we are taking it "out-of-context," be specific and tell us what they really meant to say and what it really means.
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Your 'argument' against bird transitional fossils was to quote Storrs Olson on the National Geographic's fossil scandal with the heading "Bird Origin Fantasy". Not really much of an argument when you consider that there are a number of real transitional fossils.
That is the problem with creationism. You can't really defeat evolution by arguing against the isolated fossil. Evolution provides many transitionals for both whales and birds. To refute these evolutionary sequences, you must address all of the members of the sequence and explain why they appeared when and where they did on the basis of a theorhetical construct.
For example, your continued assertion that Pakicetus was nothing but a terrestrial mammal and not a whale does not address the reality that there are a number of characteristics that like it to the artiodactyls (they descended from) and to later cetaceans. Pakicetus stands at the water's edge and the whales that followed changed as they went into that water.
