Count Me A Skeptic

I've never been too impressed with paleontologists and this article about discovering whales in Pakistan demonstrates why. The scientist assumes that the baby whale is a fetus and the article gives no evidence to back this up. So when the baby whale has teeth the paleontologist assumes that this type of whale was born more prepared than other types of whales. An alternate assumption might be that the fetus was really a whale that had been born and had consequently began to grow it's teeth...just like other whales.

I could go on and on, but read it skeptically yourself and you will see that for every "discovery" the paleontologist makes there is an alternate possibility that he overlooks, he makes a bunch of assumptions based on his own preconceptions. This is science? Reminds me of a scene from an old Steve Martin movie where he is working at a gas station and someone is shooting at him with a high powered rifle and missing, destroying cans of oil one at a time. Martin looks at the oil and says, "Get down! Those oil cans are exploding!"