I got this off Sicarii’s. The picture on the left, is the ancestor which the gigantic ocean-dwelling whale may have evolved from. This land animal, the size of a small raccoon, might be the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals. It is an odd animal that looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers or an overgrown long-legged rat, fossils indicate. Hans Thewissen suggests that it most resembles the current African mousedeer, which has a rat-like nose and ‘when danger approaches, it jumps in the water and hides’.

I am not scientist but I do find this pretty hilarious. Well, I have not seen a raccoon but Wikipedia says a raccoon ranges between 3 – 16 kg and measure 60 – 90 cm in length. Meantime, the Blue Whale is the largest known mammal that has ever lived, and the largest living animal, at up to 35 m long and weighs a hefty 150 tons.

Next, whether it’s a raccoon or a mousedeer, a whale has a completely different diet. Perhaps the mousedeer that jumped into water to hide suddenly discovered that it prefers to eat plankton and fish all of a sudden and managed also to convince its mate to do so… kekekeke…

Anyway, if I am ever going to believe the evolution theory at all, I would rather stick with the Hippopotamus as the closest known relative to the whale. But even then, the hippos’ ancestors first appeared in Africa, and that of whales appeared in what is modern day India and Pakistan. Duh!

So, I simply don’t understand how just something like this can be called a missing link and how evolution can hold water, even when it has that many things against it, in just this one case alone! I mean, if you tell me about the Archimedes’ principle, I wouldn’t have even laughed at it as no one is going to come to me to say there’s a problem to the principle because of this, this, that and that…

I can’t say the same for evolution. But don’t be mistaken, I am not promoting creationism here either. Like I have said in an earlier post on the eye… I’ll prefer matters of faith be left as they are, and I believe both creationism and evolution shouldn’t be taught in schools at all!