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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Vestigal Organs
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Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 08:57:01 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 28 08:57:01 1985
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> 
>   Is it possible that the whale once lived in relatively shallow habitats
>   and came out to walk on the land at times. After thousands of years of
>   living in deeper waters its legs could have suffered degeneration.
> 
>   Just a thought!
> 
> 					      Dan

This is, of course, exactly right!  In fact, we have a sequence of
fossils showing the evolution of modern cetaceans from Mesonychid
land animals that lived 50 million years ago.  There is no gap
in the sequence. See F. Edwords (Creation/Evolution, Issue X,
p. 6 - Fall 1982).

Glad to see you joining the evolutionist cause, Dan !-)

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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