Raptor-riding Jesus is not amused.

Too bad the animation is rather crap. Much better illustration in the brief discussion on the movement of whales, otters and dogs at the end if this video:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Whale-Evolution

The bio-mechanics is obviously not accurate as its in 2d, but its still interesting.

So... imagine if early homnids had spent more time eating fish. Our brains would be even bigger from all the omega 3 ...and we'd be mermaids!

This is exactly the kind of thing creationists use to ridicule scientists' views on evolution.
By animating it as if it's one creature it makes the average creationist think people think this is what happens.
The problem with simplifying things is that then simple people think they understand them.

You've got it all wrong. As the great Steve Harvey once pontificated, If we evolved from monkeys, why we still got monkeys?

And then one day, the whale said "hah, i need a better way of breathing on the surface like i need a hole in the head!" And thus they got one, proving that god does have a sense of humour.

Serious note - from two posts up - this video is probably being used as a very simple tool for the teaching of evolution. It's not meant to be a piece of proof, because scientists don't view ID/religious people to be opponenets to which they must provide evidence. Scientists know that evolution does actually happen, and the burden of proof is on the ID/religious people.

It's like er.. i dunno, beginning to teach kids in an art class by getting them to colour in between the lines. It's not art, it's just to keep them interested whilst they're young. This video keeps people interested and gives them a base of knowledge by simplifying and showing how the environment impacted on the natural selection process. Like i say, they're not at all worried about religious people pointing this out as bullshit.

And just in case the last post was serious. We don't come from monkeys, us and monkeys come from a common ancestor, and both of us are evolutionary success stories. We went different ways and both worked.

>> ^ponceleon:
Raptor-riding Jesus is not amused.

Not every science video needs an anti-religion jab in it.

>> ^Lodurr Not every science video needs an anti-religion jab in it.

Every thread still needs it's asshole trying to make it still.

I want one o' them in-between whale-rat things for a pet.

Any one else feel the animation is like monty python's and half expected a god or a giant foot to show up?