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Its called the earliest whale, when its obviously a hyena-like land animal. My point is that evolution is so dumb that evolutionists can't help but make themselves look stupid by calling one of the most un whale-like animals 'the earliest whale.'



This doesnt follow at all, and all you succeed in doing is making yourself look dumb--especially when it's clear you haven't the slightest idea how evolutionary science is done, and why scientists make such statements.

It is called an early whale not because it "looks" like a whale, but that scientists can find certain "basal" traits in the fossil, from which certain traits shared by ALL subsequent whales are "derived".

This is how evolutionary "trees" are now developed, and often more properly called "cladograms" because they use something known as cladistic ananlysis. This allows a researcher to organize species by phylogenetic trees, based on only "derived" characteristics.

This means that even if an animal may look very similar to another, if its features can not be shown to have been derived from it, it cant be descended from it. Thus we know that a homo sapiens is not descended from a gorilla, yet they both share derived characteristics that show they both descended from a common ancestor.

This is the science of evolutionary biology and phylogeny, and you are advised to familiarize yourself with it before attacking it ad infinitum.

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