If evolution were true---then....?
"How did two animals completely different in size and ancestry, living in very different environments, arrive at the same complex sensing mechanism?
Bats and whales are both mammals, but they could hardly be more different.
A press release from the University of Southern Denmark - - - The article describes echolocation as “one of Nature’s extremely successful specializations,” then asks, “why have such different animals as whales and bats both developed the same technique?” The answer cannot be relationship, because (according to the evolutionary scenario), their common ancestors diverged 200 million years ago. Both bats and whales “developed the ability” long after they split onto separate branches of the mammalian tree.
And yet the sounds of a tiny bat and a huge whale are “surprisingly similar,” the researchers found. Despite the former flying in air and the latter swimming in water, both use sounds in the 10–200 kHz range for echolocation.
There must be an explanation for the remarkable similarity of biosonar – which coordinates mouth, ears, brain and behavior – in such very different animals. The press release, without hesitation, offered one up:
Speaking of bats, five European evolutionists presumed to describe their evolutionary relationships. Writing in Current Biology, they admitted in the first paragraph that “the exact evolutionary relationship of bats to their closest mammalian relatives is poorly understood due to their unique morphological features associated with flight, a lack of intermediate forms, and a poor fossil record.” This sounds very similar to what another international team declared in 2005.
By filling in those gaps with “phylogenetic analyses” (essentially, DNA comparisons), they drew up their tree diagrams showing where bats fit with other mammals, including humans. Boasting about their achievement, they invoked “convergent evolution” again in a rather extraordinary manner:
CEH
And God created great whales,
and every living creature that moveth,
Genesis 1:21
"How did two animals completely different in size and ancestry, living in very different environments, arrive at the same complex sensing mechanism?
Bats and whales are both mammals, but they could hardly be more different.
A press release from the University of Southern Denmark - - - The article describes echolocation as “one of Nature’s extremely successful specializations,” then asks, “why have such different animals as whales and bats both developed the same technique?” The answer cannot be relationship, because (according to the evolutionary scenario), their common ancestors diverged 200 million years ago. Both bats and whales “developed the ability” long after they split onto separate branches of the mammalian tree.
And yet the sounds of a tiny bat and a huge whale are “surprisingly similar,” the researchers found. Despite the former flying in air and the latter swimming in water, both use sounds in the 10–200 kHz range for echolocation.
There must be an explanation for the remarkable similarity of biosonar – which coordinates mouth, ears, brain and behavior – in such very different animals. The press release, without hesitation, offered one up:
The answer lies in convergent evolution – when almost identical features or developments happen in different species. Through evolution both bats and toothed whales have developed the same functional characteristics.
What more needs to be said? A bat is a bat and that’s that. A whale is a whale and there’s our tale.Speaking of bats, five European evolutionists presumed to describe their evolutionary relationships. Writing in Current Biology, they admitted in the first paragraph that “the exact evolutionary relationship of bats to their closest mammalian relatives is poorly understood due to their unique morphological features associated with flight, a lack of intermediate forms, and a poor fossil record.” This sounds very similar to what another international team declared in 2005.
By filling in those gaps with “phylogenetic analyses” (essentially, DNA comparisons), they drew up their tree diagrams showing where bats fit with other mammals, including humans. Boasting about their achievement, they invoked “convergent evolution” again in a rather extraordinary manner:
… this study provides the most concrete evidence to date toward resolving the long-standing debate regarding bat evolutionary history. Our results further emphasize the extraordinary phenotypic convergence seen across echolocating members of the two suborders, including the possible independent origin of laryngeal echolocation itself, a hypothesis supported by several studies of molecular evolution of sensory genes.…
They never did mention fossils again. One thing creationist Dr. Duane Gish liked to point out in his hundreds of debates with evolutionists on college campuses is that the first fossil bat was 100% bat."CEH
And God created great whales,
and every living creature that moveth,
Genesis 1:21
