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    Evolutionary Imagination and Belief Drive False Claims of a "Four-Legged Whale"
    Casey Luskin
    September 1, 2021
    Evolutionary Imagination and Belief Drive False Claims of a “Four'-'Legged Whale” | Evolution News

    The media are currently abuzz with claims of a newly discovered fossil from Egypt: a "four-legged whale." Here are some prominent headlines:


    NPR: "Scientists Discover Fossil Of A 4-Legged Whale With A Raptor-Like Eating Style"

    Newsweek: "Scientists have found the fossil of a deadly 4-legged whale that had a jackal-like head and lived both on land and in the sea"

    New York Post: "Fossil of previously unknown four-legged whale found in Egypt"

    BBC: "New species of ancient four-legged whale discovered in Egypt"


    And so on. The headlines are accompanied by an artist's depiction of what was supposedly found. See above. The image is attributed to one of the co-authors of the technical paper, geologist Robert W. Boessenecker.


    "That's Right, Folks"

    The NPR story warns:

    We regret to inform you that your nightmares are about to get worse.

    A team led by Egyptian scientists have dug up a 43 million-year-old fossil in the Sahara Desert in Egypt of a now-extinct amphibious four-legged whale.


    That's right, folks — a whale with legs.

    The problem with these claims? That's right folks — they didn't find any of the fossil's legs. Everything you just read about this fossil is the product of imagination. In fact, if you check the technical paper you'll learn that they found very little of the fossil at all. Figure 1 from the paper, which can be seen online here, shows the bones that were discovered shaded in red. Zoom in and look at the drawing in the middle. You may notice, as I said, a curious absence of red-shaded leg bones.

    Also absent: the pelvis, the vast majority of ribs and vertebrae, and the front portion of the snout. Undoubtedly the organism had these bones, but to call this a "whale with legs," or to unequivocally depict it as some species transitional between terrestrial mammals and whales (as seen above), is to impose a huge amount of evolutionary imagination on the situation. ...














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    I watched part of a documentary on PBS about this just the other night. I missed the beginning but what I saw was showing the video rendering of the animal and was saying it took 12 million years to evolve into today's whale.

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    I watched part of a documentary on PBS about this just the other night. I missed the beginning but what I saw was showing the video rendering of the animal and was saying it took 12 million years to evolve into today's whale.
    Evolutionary literature is filled with these types of "just so" stories.

    No concrete evidence just an "evolution of the gaps" mindset.

    ie: we know it must have evolved so to fill in the gaps it must have happened "just so".




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    There's the name of one missing link called Sally or something and i think it's just a jawbone, and they've created a whole species out of her. Intellectually dishonest the way they do this.

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    So there really could be a Land Shark??

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    Deluded fools

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