Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Whales (and intro)

I plan to use this space to document compelling discussions/proof/examples of evolution. With the Discovery Institute's wedge strategy still in motion, there needs to be someplace to collect these strong arguments. Talk Origins is a great resource, but I think some people get lost in the verbage. I'm going to try to collect the strongest and most straight forward examples (with as little verbage as possible).

So to kick things off:

Whales provide a good picture of the powers of evolution. I thought the following image did an excellent job of not only showing where whales "came from", but showing how evolution works in general:

















Source: University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology.