God's sense of humor - the platypus

[Joseph G]

I'm still relatively new here so if this belongs in another forum please move it.

Has anyone ever considered the platypus? I think God thought it would be highly amusing to create something completely absurd just to give us a giggle.

And there's an added benefit. It gives us the benefit to ask the ardent evolutionist what exactly is THIS evolving into? A duck? A beaver? What? And what exactly did it evolve FROM?

Imagine the lonely male platypus mucking along one day and running into his first female platypus - "Thank GOD! Someone who can love me just the way I am!"

 

[jacks]

Imagine the lonely male platypus mucking along one day and running into his first female platypus - "Thank GOD! Someone who can love me just the way I am!"

It's not just the platypus that feels this way!

 

[Joseph G]

It's not just the platypus that feels this way!

Amen!

 

[jacks]

Actually they're pretty cute.

 

[Joseph G]

LOL! "Hey baby! Did you know that you are beautifully and wonderfully made?"

 

[Unqualified]

The duck bill is a good defense against the rats they kill.

 

[Occams Barber]

I'm still relatively new here so if this belongs in another forum please move it.

There are two, more appropriate Forums - both cover Creation/Evolution. One is Christians Only. The other allows non-Christian access.

Has anyone ever considered the platypus? I think God thought it would be highly amusing to create something completely absurd just to give us a giggle.

Why does everyone pick on the platypus? It's no more absurd than a giraffe or a rhino or a seahorse or an octopus. Did you know that whales and hippopotamuses are closely related? How absurd is that?

And there's an added benefit. It gives us the benefit to ask the ardent evolutionist what exactly is THIS evolving into? A duck? A beaver? What? And what exactly did it evolve FROM?

The platypus is a egg laying mammal: i.e., it suckles its young. Since you are also a mammal, you and the platypus evolved from a common ancestor - a vaguely rodent like animal which lived several million years ago.

The platypus 'duck' bill, used for foraging underwater, is a case of convergent evolution where two relatively unrelated animals independently evolve a similar characteristic. This also happened with wings in bats and birds and eyes in humans and octopuses (and flies). The egg laying habit is a leftover from a pre-mammalian ancestor.

You asked what platypus are evolving into. If you understood evolution you'd realise that this is not predictable although there is one distinct possibility- extinction. Platypuses are a highly threatened species. In 75 years living in rural Australia I've only ever seen a platypus in the wild once.

\\The platypus: evolutionary history, biology, and an uncertain future

Judging from the tone and content of your post you're a Creationist who is not very familiar with evolution.

Stick around. Evolution is a fascinating topic - you may learn something.

OB

 

[Bradskii]

I'm still relatively new here so if this belongs in another forum please move it.

Has anyone ever considered the platypus? I think God thought it would be highly amusing to create something completely absurd just to give us a giggle.

And there's an added benefit. It gives us the benefit to ask the ardent evolutionist what exactly is THIS evolving into? A duck? A beaver? What? And what exactly did it evolve FROM?

Imagine the lonely male platypus mucking along one day and running into his first female platypus - "Thank GOD! Someone who can love me just the way I am!"

And they taste like chicken.

 

[Nithavela]

I'm still relatively new here so if this belongs in another forum please move it.

Has anyone ever considered the platypus? I think God thought it would be highly amusing to create something completely absurd just to give us a giggle.

And there's an added benefit. It gives us the benefit to ask the ardent evolutionist what exactly is THIS evolving into? A duck? A beaver? What? And what exactly did it evolve FROM?

Imagine the lonely male platypus mucking along one day and running into his first female platypus - "Thank GOD! Someone who can love me just the way I am!"

The evolution of the platypus is pretty well understood by scientists.

 

[Estrid]

There are two, more appropriate Forums - both cover Creation/Evolution. One is Christians Only. The other allows non-Christian access.

Why does everyone pick on the platypus? It's no more absurd than a giraffe or a rhino or a seahorse or an octopus. Did you know that whales and hippopotamuses are closely related? How absurd is that?

The platypus is a egg laying mammal: i.e., it suckles its young. Since you are also a mammal, you and the platypus evolved from a common ancestor - a vaguely rodent like animal which lived several million years ago.

The platypus 'duck' bill, used for foraging underwater, is a case of convergent evolution where two relatively unrelated animals independently evolve a similar characteristic. This also happened with wings in bats and birds and eyes in humans and octopuses (and flies). The egg laying habit is a leftover from a pre-mammalian ancestor.

You asked what platypus are evolving into. If you understood evolution you'd realise that this is not predictable although there is one distinct possibility- extinction. Platypuses are a highly threatened species. In 75 years living in rural Australia I've only ever seen a platypus in the wild once.

\\The platypus: evolutionary history, biology, and an uncertain future

Judging from the tone and content of your post you're a Creationist who is not very familiar with evolution.

Stick around. Evolution is a fascinating topic - you may learn something.

OB

Reality is generally more interesting than
childish imaginings

 

[Estrid]

The evolution of the platypus is pretty well understood by scientists.

You mean..." howcome platypus, ya
silly evos" isnt a killer gotcha??

 

[friend of]

Is the platypus an example of a transitional species in the theory of evolution?

 

[Bradskii]

Is the platypus an example of a transitional species in the theory of evolution?

You are an example of a transitional species.

 

[Occams Barber]

Is the platypus an example of a transitional species in the theory of evolution?

All species are transitional unless they're about to go extinct.

Evolution is an ongoing process.

OB

 

[friend of]

All species are transitional unless they're about to go extinct.

Evolution is an ongoing process.

OB

Can you give an example of a transitional species that is about to go extinct?

 

[Estrid]

Is the platypus an example of a transitional species in the theory of evolution?

Why do you ask?

 

[Estrid]

Can you give an example of a transitional species that is about to go extinct?

Thats not a clever trick question.

 

[Joseph G]

(chewing popcorn)

 

[Kokavkrystallos]

Since you are also a mammal, you and the platypus evolved from a common ancestor - a vaguely rodent like animal which lived several million years ago.

This is absurd. A vaguely rodent like animal which lived several million years ago. Pure speculation. Absolutely no proof, no facts, no transitional forms. Pure fabricated theory designed by those who wish to perpetuate a fraudulent lie in order to bypass the Creator God who made both man and the Platypus after their kind.

Even Darwin wrote : "Organs of extreme perfection and complication.—To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree."

"Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man?"

"The electric organs of fishes offer another case of special difficulty; it is impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have been produced;..."
- chapter 6, On the Origin of Species

 

[Nithavela]

This is absurd. A vaguely rodent like animal which lived several million years ago. Pure speculation. Absolutely no proof, no facts, no transitional forms. Pure fabricated theory designed by those who wish to perpetuate a fraudulent lie in order to bypass the Creator God who made both man and the Platypus after their kind.

Even Darwin wrote : "Organs of extreme perfection and complication.—To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree."

"Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man?"

"The electric organs of fishes offer another case of special difficulty; it is impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have been produced;..."
- chapter 6, On the Origin of Species

This kind of thread really belongs in the crevo-forum so I don't have to look at it...