stephanurus

Yes, they deny that too but at least one creationist has fallen back on this breathing anatomy in whales as evidence against evolution. stephanurus

At the site http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/anatomy/blowhole.shtml the following statement is made: "Whales cannot breathe through through their mouths (like people can). Their trachea (the tube to the lungs) and esophagus (the tube to the stomach) are not connected." I imagine that something like that is where the creationist claim in my first post above comes from. Where is the evidence that this tracheal arrangement in whales is an adaptation of whales to their environment and not something created de novo as a creationist might imagine it? What about anatomical studies of whale embryos/fetuses? Are there any or just crude diagrams? stephanurus

Sheesh! Questionposer is right: there IS life outside these forums. The message to me had nothing to do with this forum and was not from a person on it. I came here to find an answer to the question because I myself did not know the answer and I assumed that somebody here might know. stephanurus

A creationist has made this statement in a private message to me: "Take a sperm whale fir instance. That creature could not have evolved naturally. They breathe thru a tube that is in no way linked to their mouth. Had they evolved that way, evolution would have ended with the seperated windpipe long before eons of furher evolution provided a whale." Is this a new creationist claim about sperm whales? What is the answer to it? stephanurus