Perhaps you don't know the difference between allegory and metaphor. Metaphor would be saying it's better to be alive dog than a dead lion. Allegory would be describing different aspects of creation as different days.
The point is, you don't know what evolution is, or even what the theory that describes is is about.
A population of interbreeding animals. This is the major problem creationists have. If creationism were true; there'd be nice, neat divisions between species, between genera and so on. But there are all sorts of half-species and so on. This, as Darwin pointed out, is strong evidence for biological evolution. But it's an unsolvable mystery for creationists.
Right. This is where your confusion of "kind" with some kind of taxonomic description comes. The Bible puts bats and birds in the same kind, because scripture classifies animals by functional classes, not by relatedness.
Here's how it works
Getting a sun tan is adaptation, but not evolution.
A neutral mutation is evolution, but not adaptation.
A mutation that lets humans survive at higher altitudes is adaptation and evolution.
Memorize that,and you won't have so much difficulty.
The Earth brought forth living things. Not poofed, but made by natural means. Evolution just explains how that happened.
And not surprisingly, genetics shows that hippos are the closest living relatives of whales.
Anatomy:
Whales have an ungulate digestive system, not found in other mammals. And it still works in whales as it does in ungulates:
Whales are carnivores that feed on small shrimp-like crustaceans. Yet their digestive systems do not resemble those of carnivorous mammals. Surprisingly, their stomachs are most similar to those of cows!
The stomachs of whales are compartmentalized into multiple chambers (or stomachs) like those of ruminants. Biologist and whale expert Pierre-Henry Fontaine explains, “compartments allow them to swallow large quantities of food quickly and without having to chew.”
In cows, these compartments serve to break down the cellulose found in plants in order to digest it. They ruminate their food, which means they digest it a first time, regurgitate it, swallow it again and digest it for good.
In 2015, a team of researchers discovered that the bacteria found in the digestive systems of baleen whales are a sort of hybrid between those of cows and those of predators with a meat-rich diet such as lions or tigers. But if whales don’t eat algae, why do they maintain typical herbivore bacteria?
Mixing these two types of microbial communities allows whales to digest not only the flesh of the small crustaceans they eat, but also their carapaces (shells). The first chamber of the whale’s stomach works the same way as the digestive system of ruminants and breaks down the main component of crustacean carapaces: chitin.
Whales are carnivores that feed on small shrimp-like crustaceans. Yet their digestive systems do not resemble those of carnivorous mammals. Surprisingly,
baleinesendirect.org
Fossil record:
Primitive whales show transitional forms between them and artiodactyles like hippos.
Science
21 Sep 2001
Vol 293, Issue 5538
pp. 2239-2242
Origin of Whales from Early Artiodactyls: Hands and Feet of Eocene Protocetidae from Pakistan
Genetics:
Whales are most closely related genetically to hippos.
A study published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the whale and the hippo are each other's closest living relatives. The genetic analysis was conducted by Masato Nikaido and Norihiro Okada of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and by Alejandro P. Rooney in the Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics at Penn State.
Rooney says, "We knew from previous work that whales were closely related to even-toed hoofed mammals, but the studies had been inconclusive or unreliable regarding exactly where they fit in the family tree of this group of mammals." This new study, like previous ones, found that animals such as the hippo, camel, pig, giraffe, sheep, and cow do share many segments of DNA with whales, porpoises, and dolphins, indicating that at some point they all had a common ancestor. However, DNA segments found only in whales and hippos indicate that they have a common ancestor that is not part of the evolutionary history of the other animals. "Ours is the first study to provide reliable confirmation that hippos are the sister-group to whales," says Rooney. Whales and hippos share several adaptations to life in an aquatic environment, including oil-producing skin glands, the lack of hair, and the use of underwater vocalizations for communication.
science.psu.edu
Surprise. The writer of Genesis assumed whales were fish, just as another writer of scripture assumed that bats were birds. It has nothing to do with the message therein.
Nope. We can do it on a lineage of animals for which we have documentation of descent. It always works.
"No, that's demonstrably wrong. Let's say we have a population of organisms with two alleles at a given gene locus, each with a frequency of 1/2. What is the information for that gene? Now suppose a mutation happens and the third allele eventually has a frequency of about 1/3. What is the information for the gene now?
Show your work. If you don't know how to measure genetic gain, just say so, and I'll show you.
Nope. You don't have a clue about how information works in genetics, do you?
In the first case the information is about 0.30. In the second, it's about 0.47. This using the Shannon equation for information which also happens to tell us how to make the internet work, and how to send reliable radio signals across billions of kilometers of space using very low-powered transmitters.
Sure does. If you're a creature of God, He continued creating after the sixth day (rested on the seventh, remember?) Assuming you weren't there before the seventh day, of course. Were you? But then, I know I wasn't there, so we have two choices:
God doesn't tell the truth, or God continues to create things in this world.
Your choice.
