Evolutionists teach us that fish became land mammals, and then they became whales!

i know that's what you'd argue. you've said stuff like that here a bunch of times.

& i'm too old and tired to get into long talks with creationists now. if you'd caught me on this topic 25 years ago, i would have been happy to tear it up with you.

all i'll say is, if that's your belief, then you have a whole bunch of inconvenient facts that you have to deal with.

ie why aren't there human or dog fossils the further you go back, and why the fossils we find from millions of years ago don't look like anything that's around now?

or why there are genetic commonalities between evolutionary siblings like the great apes that show shared ancestry. things like that.

creationists don't address those things. they hand-wave them away or concoct fantastical stories that are deeply silly. certainly far more fanciful than the accepted knowledge that all life on earth evolved from earlier species.

blah blah blah...i'm sorry for prattling on anyway. i'm not really here to argue with anyone. certainly not creationists. i actually don't even really care that much about things like that anymore. it seems silly to me, but i certainly don't get angry about it anymore. go off and live your life. if something like this makes you happy...eh, ok. feels sad to deprive yourself of genuine insight, but it's your life.

that's true. whales are descended from artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates). their nearest living relative is a hippo.

they diverged from the descendents of the carnivora, latest, in the paleocene, more likely in the cretaceous.

whale evolution is fairly exhaustively documented - major discoveries by Phil Gingerich in Pakistan starting in the 70s told the tale. to those with ears.

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/images/evograms/whale_evo.jpg

https://ocean.si.edu/through-time/ancient-seas/evolution-whales-animation