Evolution, Beached Whales and Liberals

125 Pilot Whales Die on New Zealand Beaches, 43 Saved

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Some 125 pilot whales died in New Zealand after stranding on the beach over the weekend -- but vacationers and conservation workers Sunday managed to coax 43 others back out to sea.

Have you ever been behind a Subaru with a Christian 'sign of the fish' with the feet and 'DARWIN' cleverly integrated within it? This (liberal do-gooder) vehicle probably also has or had a 'Save the Whales' bumper sticker as well.

New Zealand beaches commonly get stranded whales this time of year. Liberal do-gooders try to save them. Why? It's the natural order of things. Whales evolved from land animals. Evolution has not stopped. Is this the beginning of the whales evolving back to land animals? Beaching behavior appears to be suicidal--to us. Doesn't this behavior cull the herd, as it were, to remove those with a tendency to beach? What happened to survival of the fittest?

When the beasts first started wallowing in the shallow lagoons, did some drown? If these liberal do-gooders were around 50-some million years ago, would they have built fences on the beach to keep the animals out of the water?

From the article above:

Large numbers of whales become stranded on New Zealand's beaches each summer as they pass by on their way to breeding grounds from Antarctic waters. Scientists so far have been unable to explain why whales become stranded.

Lets come up with a few explainations...

1. Hormones. They are on their way to breeding grounds. They could be disoriented thinking about that glorious romp in the waves.
   
2. Plate Tectonics. New Zealand may now be in the way of their historical migration path, and they try to take a shortcut overland. There is pleasure at the end of the journey, afterall. Wouldn't you want to get there as quickly as possible?
   
3. Chemical imbalance. Mixed signals have them thinking they can walk (and mate) on land...like in the old days.
   
4. Evolution. Why do people think they need to preserve species as they know them? What happened to survival of the fittest?
   

So the liberal do-gooders who try to save beached whales are meddling with nature and actually doing the species a great disservice. Instead of letting evolution and 'survival of the fittest' run its course, the gene pool gets polluted with whales who have a tendency to try to go back to the land of their ancestors. Our civilization is a fraction of a blink of an eye in the history of the Earth. Species come and go. Ask the dinosaurs.