Why do atheistic evolutionists try to save beached whales?

Like most uneducated creationists, you obviously haven't taken the time to understand even the very basics about evolution. Whales do not "evolve" to humans. You're thinking of the medieval superstition known as the "Great Chain of Being", which we know now is bogus.

Organisms don't move up a predetermined hierarchy. What happens is that populations split off from each other, and while isolated their gene pools continue change (via genetic mutation, genetic drift, and natural selection) independently from each other. After many many generations, the two resulting populations are so different from each other that they can't be called the same species any more.

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.