Ark Dispersion and Slow-Moving Animals

A few weeks ago, I mentioned teasing at the Darwin Ranch that bothered Lisa Myworries, the new overseer of the Winkie Guards. That lead to the post, "Creation Science and those Unique Australian Animals." Looks like she saw it, so she rode her buckboard out to my place with some questions.

Asking about animals and the Ark dispersion is quite fair. Not only Australia and the area, but some critters are quite slow; they seem to just mosey along. Some folks really want to know, but scoffers think those are "gotcha" questions. Not if handled properly.

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People need to think beyond simple appearances, because animals today are not necessarily the same as in those thrilling days of yesteryear. Speciation occurs, although it is most definitely not evolution. Also, there is a matter of continental plates moving land masses as well.

Whether it's the 'roos going to Australia via India, the slower animals and others that were migrating — those are questions that both creationists and evolutionists try to explain. Aside from the timeframes, they agree on several things regarding biogeography.

It may sound surprising, but most of the mechanisms that evolutionary biologists postulate for animal migration to current habitats (biogeography) are the same ones creationist models hypothesize too, but on vastly different timescales. Organism redistribution involves both paths of dispersion as well as modes of locomotion. Paths may include overland migration, land bridge crossings, and water rafting. Locomotion options include accidental or deliberate transport by humans, flying, swimming, wind-blown carriage (for smaller animals, and especially insects, plants, and seeds).

Some Bible critics see a problem with animal diversity on the planet and the account of the Genesis flood. They cannot see how all the animals on the planet could have possibly descended from the animals that were preserved on Noah’s ark. Furthermore, skeptics of the biblical account of the flood (and immediate post-flood) narrative often point to the implausibility of Scripture accounting for slow-moving animals (like sloths and turtles, for example) ending up in places far removed from the Ararat region in only one to two thousand years. We’ll examine both of these issues in this article.

To read the rest, click on "Slow-Moving Animal Dispersion After the Flood." What follows is a song that reminds us of the home that awaits us at the end of our travels: