Quote# 29476
Words are easy to put together forming a nonesense story. The famous proto-whalepig has no chance of evolving into a whale because
1) supposed it had some random genetic mutation, which we know is rare, the passing a beneficial trait involves its survival given its many predators on earth, and that together with the pig with which it mates, some piglet, among the dozen or so born, inherits the trait. A reasonable person would say that is another rare event.
2) So the 2nd generation proto-whalepiglet also likes water and go swim in the lake or ocean. It could be easily serve as food to big fish and sharks.
3) it's hard to imagine any female proto-whalepig would give birth in water to aquatic proto-whalepiglets, no matter how many eons fly by. Propagation of any new trait requires large number. Predators abound, ready to eat those whalepiglets if there were any, really.
4) As in Seelke's experiment with E.Coli, a new function that requires two mutations didn't happen with trillions of bacteria. Yet there are many new functions needed for proto-whalepigs to become more whalelike, such as developing sonar for their navigation.
5) We can hardly imagine all the steps of mutations to turn whalepigs more into whale. None has been observed. It's something beyond imagination.
T. Nguyen,
Amazon.com discussion 35 Comments [10/1/2007 7:58:31 PM]
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