[Apparently suggesting whales are a subgroup of fish]
Groups of animals are just created with similar traits; that's why they can be grouped.
That's why a designer would make more sense. Evolution couldn't possibly explain why whales have hair, but it makes sense from an ID standpoint; that God made groups of animals similars, and added more similarities with each subgroup.
An accident couldn't have made variety that can follow a logical grouping pattern of kingdom, phylum, species, genus, etc.
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>> That's why a designer would make more sense. Evolution couldn't possibly explain why whales have hair, but it makes sense from an ID standpoint <<
So an intelligent designer gave whales hair (and they only have it to any degree during fetal development...hmmm, I wonder why that would be?), a structure that increases an animals drag in water? I guess we should tell the competetive swimmers to stop shaving their body hair, as it is clearly a better hydrodynamic design to leave the hair on.
<<< An accident couldn't have made variety that can follow a logical grouping pattern of kingdom, phylum, species, genus, etc. >>>
I think I'd better step in here, and correct some problems. I'm responsible for the intelligent design of life on Earth. Anyway, someone here asked about the different varieties of similar species. These are not the result of our laziness. They're called "BRAND EXTENSIONS." Coke makes Coke, diet Coke, lime Coke, vanilla Coke, cherry Coke, almost diet Coke and many other such things, rather than restricting themselves to one design. Similarly, we made many different kinds of fish. Of course, whales aren't fish; we know that. See, some time ago, iDesigncorp sold off several phyla, and we bought them like hotcakes. Once we had design rights, we made whales and dolphins in an attempt to expand our standard product line and make it compatible with an iDesigncorp system.
Sorry again for humans' present state. Anyway, the people at Designers DESIGNED incorporated are real bastards they DELIBERATELY built humans (at least some) with a hidden program code-named "Christianity." This program makes said humans view "Adam" and "Eve" as criminals. The Christianity program was deliberately designed to make the knockoff humans incompatible with our own. Since we're the original pioneers of Project Homo Sapien, we could easily build a much higher-quality human; in fact we still have the designs for our original perfect humans. The problem is, that the Designers DESIGNED humans already populate the Earth to the tune of 6 billion, and since ours are incompatible, no one is rushing to switch over. We actually made a few attempts to build cross-compatible humans, but they never come out very well. See, we managed to get a copy of the "Christianity" program, and designed a human with that program; since the human in question ran Christianity, he was compatible with many current humans. The problem is that Christianity has massive side effects that shatter the product's quality. If we could fairly compete, Designers DESIGNED would have to eliminate their hidden program to improve quality, but with it in, we can't break their monopoly. A real Catch-22. Anyway, you probably know of a guy named Pat Robertson. He's one of ours. See, as I said, we tried to make our humans compatible with DD's, but having them run the "Christianity" program led to MASSIVE quality issues. When the CEO saw Robertson in action, he classified the entire compatibility project to this date as sunk costs, and filed it under "misc. cont. exp." in the report to our shareholders. We pretty much gave up on humans, and diversified into other markets. That's why you don't see any new species appear on Earth, aside from the effects of evolution, as defective merchandise (made by OUR COMPETITORS) starts to change over time, likely due to a vulnerability to mutation-causing effects which we can repair for low, low prices! Or if you like, we can insure a species against change and mutation. Our rates are $150,000 per year per 10,000 population, with a $5,000 deductible. All claims relating to mutation-reversal experiments will be paid in full once the deductible is reached.
Yeah, your argument would work if:
Kingdom, phylum, species, and genus weren't human concepts created so we could classify different kinds of life.
The entire mass of data on life, not just one or two bits of questionable evidence (The Kent Hovind approach), shows that intelligent design is what actually happened.
whales are mammals. cows are mammals and so are humans.
I agree that some humans may look a bit like whales but its not really that close.
evolution is not accidental.
If even the designer himself can't tell the difference between water-breathing Fish, and the mammalian, live young-bearing air -breathing lifeforms (question: why do Whales, Dolphins, Porpoise Orca, Seals etc have to surface ...?! Aye, there's the debate-destroying rub, indeed), then he's an un 'Intelligent', nay, a fucking stupid designer. Three words: Duck Billed Platypus.
That logical grouping (kingdom, phylum, species, etc.) is EXACTLY what you would get with the evolution of creatures into similar creatures, then into not-so-similar creatures, then into quite-different creatures, then into completely different creatures.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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