I will demonstrate these points by quotations from Johnson below. The parallels between what he says about AIDS are eerily close to what he says about evolution. Those who have confidence in their evidence and their logic do not appeal to prejudice, nor do they insist upon imposing rules of discourse that allow only one position to receive serious consideration, nor do they use vague and shifting terminology to distract attention from genuine points of difficulty. Still less do they heap abuse and ridicule upon persons who want to raise questions about the evidence and the philosophical assumptions that underly a theory. 87 Whales are believed to have come from Mesonyx, a Creodont mammal in the order Carnivora.
Rodents have their own order, Rodentia.
No scientist believes that a rodent gave rise to a whale. Johnson's lawyer training is showing. Fossil evidence for the origin of aquatic locomotion in archaeocete whales. He also says that rodents gave rise to birds. I know of no evolutionist that believes that rodents gave rise to birds.