Ambassador College and all offshoot versions were not and are NOT places to learn anything about how the real and natural world works. Ambassador did not teach one how to make a living, how to think critically or anything remotely true about science and how the world came to be. It also did and still does a terrible job with theology. Reading the Bible and endless comments and speculation on mythological tales and Bronze Age perspectives do not, and cannot lead to truth in the sciences.
"A Whale of a Tale" was the Churches clever and easy to read answer to what some perceived as the impossibilities of whale evolution. A quick read and "poof!" , the average church member and student had THE answer to it all. Of course, they did not. They had a scientific apologetic to get them through the need for the Church to be correct and scientific inquiry mistaken, but they failed miserably and do to this day.
We have learned more in the past 25 years than in the previous 25,000
"A Theory of for the Birds" was also the shallow church version concentrating mostly on just how could a woodpecker not knock itself out pecking and just how could feathers not just poof into existence to facilitate flight. We now know feathers, evolved long before they ever were also adapted to flight. Feathered dinosaur fossils are a regular discovery these days and it was not because they needed to fly. But that's another story.
The totally discredited and long ago outdated text for Second Year Bible At Ambassador
The deep study of the topic was to outline the book and hand the outline in at years end.
But that's another story too....
The Shallow and Mistaken Church version debunking Whale Evolution
"Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle."
Richard Dawkins
(Sorry, I think this is hilarious)
A Short Course in Whale Evolution for those so inclined
For those willing and able to pay attention for more than two minutes
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