/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16128514
plus dolphins are not even fair of a comparison, they had land help get there. apart from aquatic mammals I guess the octopus is the smartest we have in our waters?

>picrel

OP hasn’t replied in a while, I think he was scared off by the whales with legs

Uh oh

>this kills the creationist

>This kills the creationist

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>>11763715
>Whales on the other hand evolved from dogs who were too lazy to walk so they swam and evolved to the point in which their hind legs were absorbed into the whale's bum.
I think whale evolution is fascinating. l would describe it more as [dog]-> [river otter]-> [sea otter]-> [seal]-> [whale].

>>9153007
Here is a quite accurate chart of the evolution of whales. Note that the time scale is in MILLIONS of years. If you take e.g. a generation time of 20 years you would have 2.500.000 generations that can slowly adapt to the environment over 50.000.0000 years.
Many people will not understand that evolution is a slow and gradual process. Human life span is too short to observe it for most species (although one can already observe significant changes of some populations within decades)

>So you're telling me that this somehow turned into a whale?
THIS thing (whatever it is) did not turn into another thing. This is another common misconception about evolution. The individuals of the population that had favourable traits were more likely to reproduce and pass on their genes. This went on over generations with each individual of the population looking very, very similar to its parent and offspring generation. After many generations (thousands or even more) you would see significant addaptions to the aquatic environment, like feet turning into fins......

There are some other important factors to it and once you will start reading more about evolution you will start to realize that the evidence for it is tremendous. Maybe read a book like "the greates show on earth" from Richard Dawkins if you want to know more

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