Response to the paper “Evidence for Evolution”

One of the world’s most eminent whale

evolutionary advocates responded to the paper
and explained that whale fossil deposition on
some of the Antarctic islands that indicated a
greater rapidity to the evolution of a whale would
re-write the textbooks.
In order to maintain the current timeframes for
whale evolution which the paper that was written
would compress; the scientist explained that tidal
activity would have disturbed the original layering
of fossils and so not give an accurate picture of
whale evolution. Therefore, even though there
was evidence for a more rapid evolution of
whales, the evidence was not of sufficient
strength to revise current timeframes for whale
evolution.
The object of the paper was not to prove or
disprove evolution, but rather to demonstrate
that at times, evolutionary change was far more
rapid than was conventionally believed.