"Baleen whales are among the biggest creatures on Earth – science is revealing new secrets about their size (11 Sept 2024, The Conversation).
“And God created great sea creatures,” Genesis 1:21 has stated for over three millennia, but Darwinians scoff at such notions believed by “people of faith.”
In this piece on the Darwine-drunk website The Conversation, Sam McKee dispenses with faith. He has Darwinian evolution to give him understanding!
“Baleen whales evolved bristly baleen plates instead of teeth, which filter or trap krill, plankton and small fish inside their mouths,” he says. But is it logical to beg the question? Has his study of rorquals, which includes baleen whales, given him understanding?
"Rorquals swim large distances which has made uncovering their evolution difficult for many reasons, including that it’s harder to identify individual populations. Furthermore, the scale of commercial hunting in the past two centuries almost destroyed many rorqual populations."
The promised understanding never comes. He wonders why large animals like whales don’t get cancer, having many more cells than we do. Maybe it’s because “molecular mechanisms of rorquals seem to give them cancer resistance.”
But that could be by design, not evolution. Where is the promised science (not faith) that can explain whales’ immunity from cancer and huge size? Comparing genes of rorquals of different sizes doesn’t mean that they evolved from each other in a Darwinian way. There is no clear evolutionary path. It’s all fluff.
"Another 2023 genetic study helped us understand how hybridisation muddled the picture of their genomic makeup, as there has been much interbreeding between rorqual species. But we now know that rorquals took a different ecological and evolutionary niche to other baleen whales, as well as toothed whales, to become impressive hunters."
Why is it an “evolutionary niche” and not just a niche?
Is his use of that adjective a subconscious tribute to Darwin? Hybridization is not evolution. It merely shuffles existing genetic information. It doesn’t create new genetic information as Darwinism requires." CEH