The story of Darwinian evolution has a host of major problems surmountable only by imagination. Consider, for example, the origin of whales. Where do they come from? The Bible teaches simply that they were made on the fifth day of creation. The evolutionary answer has to be much more complicated and confusing. The problem, in this case, is that whales are mammals, but look remarkably like fish! But, most mammals live on land. The evolutionists have a hard-enough time trying to explain (and prove scientifically!) how mammals developed from creatures that originally came from the sea. But, such creatures don't have lungs; they have gills which remove oxygen from water.

Now, here's where it gets more "interesting": How does a gill completely disappear while lungs begin to develop? Or, how does a gill turn into a lung? It can't! And there are certainly no fossils that show a creature with a half-gill, half-lung. The problem evolutionists have with whales is that, according to them, mammals developed over millions of years on land. How did some return to the sea and start looking like fish again? Some evolutionists have tried to tackle this problem. Here is a typical proposed scenario...

Many millions of years ago, long after mammals had fully developed on land, there was a type of wolf that lived near the edge of the sea. This creature learned to like fish, so it spent much time in the water to catch them. After a while, this wolf-like creature began to swim out further into the waves going after its food. It spent more and more time in the ocean. Over millions of years, its front legs began to turn into fins while it completely lost its back legs. Its tail area grew into a large "flipper". To breathe properly, its nose began to evolve from the front of its head up to the top. Its skin changed, too, to include the special blubber they need to keep them insulated. These, and many other changes, all by chance, eventually turned the wolf-like creature into the whales we have today.

Sound reasonable? Others propose that it wasn't a wolf-like creature at all, but a cow-like creature! So, you apparently have your choice of evolutionary options. To me, these scenarios take MUCH more faith than simply accepting the obvious - that each creature is unique and displays incredible design!

Sperm whale image: Gabriel Barathieu