Creation Science and those Unique Australian Animals

Lisa Myworries became the new overseer of the Winkie Guards at the Darwin Ranch, and a quarrel happened. Ranch hands were commenting about how birdies and beasties in and around 'Straya just happened to evolve there, then teased the Winkies because nobody knows their origins.

Before a fracas ensued, foreman Rusty Swingset got involved. Still, things are not as simple as evolutionists lead people to believe. Biblical creationists have models to meet the challenge of how creatures reached Australia after the Genesis Flood.

Echidna (spiny anteater), Unsplash / Enguerrand Blanchy

Most of the marsupials in the world live in Australia (and neighboring areas), and many other unique critters not found elsewhere call it home. When Darwin's Flying Monkeys™ ridicule creationists with insipid remarks like, "How did kangaroos get there? Did they hop? Haw, haw, haw!", they ignore their own problems of providing evidence that animals evolved there. Indeed, their relatives live in New Guinea, and were known to have lived in India. Yes, 'roos hopped; they didn't exactly charter a C130 Hercules, now did they?

Looking at a map, a journey can be traced from the Ararat region where Noah's Ark landed. It includes other parts of the Middle East, India, the Indochinese Peninsula, Indonesia, and so on to Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring areas. While uninformed scoffers mocked creationists who said that rafting was a part of biogeography, that idea is acknowledged by evolutionists as well. Land bridges may have also played a part in the migrations. Also, some critters could simply have done some swimming, flying, hitching a ride with humans, and so on.

There is no trail of fossils left from the journeys. For one thing, it is extremely unlikely that the migration was one big planned trip, but more intermittent. (This is also probable with human migrations around the world.) The overwhelming majority of fossils were deposited in the Genesis Flood, so fossilization afterward is quite rare. It also requires the proper conditions, happening near lakeshores, tar pits, and so on.

Many factors are involved in biogeographical dispersal. Questions arise for both secular scientists and biblical creationists who each look at the evidence (or for secularists, contradictory or even lacking) from their own worldviews. Creationists have some plausible models that seem to fit observed data.

Australia has some very unique animals. It is home to the only two extant monotremes (egg-laying mammals): the platypus and the echidna, also called the spiny anteater (although the echidna also inhabits New Guinea). It also has all but three marsupial orders living there. . .

Some of Australia’s marsupials are iconic, such as kangaroos, koalas, and wombats. They instantly bring to mind their Australian homeland. There are also large flightless birds native to Australia: the emu, cassowary, and the smallest species of penguin, aptly named the little penguin or the fairy penguin (they are also native to New Zealand). . . . Australian fauna is vastly different from what we see in North America, Europe, and Asia.

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