Originally posted by galveston75
So for me the "clueless one" could someone explain, or give me a link to explain without those famous words "We think it could have happened this way" how a land mammal would have evolved into an ocean mammal?
Just the basics will do......
And I don't need the same old responce " you just need to read more". I just want it explained by someone that can actually do it and not blow me off. If it's a fact, lets see it.
And I don't need the same old responce " you just need to read more". I just want it explained by someone that can actually do it and not blow me off.
I think that shouldn't be " you just need to read more" which is rather vague ( read what? Weather reports? ) but “you just need to look it up yourself". I could be wrong but I think you just might be making the error of assuming that we are all experts or at least there would be one expert here on the evolutionary paths that evolution of life took just because we accept scientific facts as facts.
But we are not experts ( at least I assume there are no experts here on this ) because none of us are the ones that have done the actual scientific research and discovery nor spent years studying it ( we cannot all be an expert on everything! ) so the only way we can give you a link as you request is simply google the subject and find relevant links and then give them to you -but then that would beg the question why cannot you do just a good a job of finding the relevant links yourself and now I hear the “you just need to look it up yourself" coming.
If it's a fact, lets see it.
Yes, it is a fact.
I am not an expert on this but I happen to know that one bit of evidence ( there is many bits of evidence ) is the existence of vestige hind mammal legs inside the anatomy of whales.
Also, note that marine mammals such as seals that have not evolved to totally loose the dependence on land ( they need to go to land to breed ) show the kind of missing link that must have once existed between the strictly land-bound ancestor of modern whales and modern whales although, obviously, I am not suggesting modern seals literally ARE that missing link because that is not the way evolution generally works.
Also note that scientists may not yet know the exact evolutionary path taken by marine animals nor of most other animals but that does not in any any way diminish what they DO know and, of course, the fact remains it is a proven fact that life evolved.