A number of geology based falsifications of the worldwide flood have been presented by Mechanical Bliss and others. But not all flood falsifications are based on geology. One of my favorites, which I first saw presented in detail by Frank Zindler,
http://atheists.org/bone.pit/kiwi.html
is biogeography.
According to the ark story marsupials and the other unique animals in Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea would have had to get there after coming off a boat, in pairs, in the Middle East into a flood devastated world along with representatives of all other land dwelling animals extinct and extant. Overall there are 13 families and about 180 unique species of marsupials in the area including kangaroos and kolas and marsupial mole like animals (of the Order Notoryctemorphia) that only live in sand. The only monotremes (egg laying mammals) in world, the platypus and 2 species of echidna are found in the Australia and New Guinea and nowhere else on earth. The Kiwi, a flightless bird, lives in New Zealand which has no native mammals of any kind. How is it that the marsupials and monotremes made it to Australia where they just happen to exist in fossil record while thousands of species of placental mammals that just happen not to exist in the Australian fossil record did not?
There is no evidence that modern marsupials or monotremes ever lived in Europe, Asia or Africa and the only marsupial fossils ever found on those continents are of very primitive marsupials. The only placental mammals either fossils or extant prior to the arrival of man found in Australia are bats, a couple species of rats and the teeth of a very primitive placental mammal.
How did marsupial mole like animals make it at all, let alone getting there with no placental mammals? These are animals that only live in sand. Of course this is far from being the only problem. The three-toed sloth can only drag itself slowly on the ground it cant walk. It can't tolerate low temperatures and moves only about 1 mile a month. How did they make it to the Americas, where sloths just happen to exist in the fossil record? Where they of a fast moving, migrating, cold tolerating kind a few thousand years ago? Does this really make any sense? If they could get around so well why did they only get the Americas??
The giant spiny anteater (one of the echidna species) is also a slow moving clumsy animal but is supposed to have made it to New Guinea ahead of all nearly all the placental mammals.
How is it that Gila monsters got to the American Southwest and why did they not go to the much more convenient deserts around the Middle East instead? Did these desert reptiles cross an ice age land bridge? How did armadillos make it to the Americas while wildebeest, zebras and giraffe did not? The question is not only how these animals got where they were going but also why other animals equally well adapted for the destination and in many cases far more able and likely to travel did not.
YEC attempts to answer this problem that I have seen either address only a small part ignoring the whole or rely on absurdities such as people took them or they migrated there. I will discuss YEC pseudo solutions in my next post.
The Frumious Bandersnatch
http://atheists.org/bone.pit/kiwi.html
is biogeography.
According to the ark story marsupials and the other unique animals in Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea would have had to get there after coming off a boat, in pairs, in the Middle East into a flood devastated world along with representatives of all other land dwelling animals extinct and extant. Overall there are 13 families and about 180 unique species of marsupials in the area including kangaroos and kolas and marsupial mole like animals (of the Order Notoryctemorphia) that only live in sand. The only monotremes (egg laying mammals) in world, the platypus and 2 species of echidna are found in the Australia and New Guinea and nowhere else on earth. The Kiwi, a flightless bird, lives in New Zealand which has no native mammals of any kind. How is it that the marsupials and monotremes made it to Australia where they just happen to exist in fossil record while thousands of species of placental mammals that just happen not to exist in the Australian fossil record did not?
There is no evidence that modern marsupials or monotremes ever lived in Europe, Asia or Africa and the only marsupial fossils ever found on those continents are of very primitive marsupials. The only placental mammals either fossils or extant prior to the arrival of man found in Australia are bats, a couple species of rats and the teeth of a very primitive placental mammal.
How did marsupial mole like animals make it at all, let alone getting there with no placental mammals? These are animals that only live in sand. Of course this is far from being the only problem. The three-toed sloth can only drag itself slowly on the ground it cant walk. It can't tolerate low temperatures and moves only about 1 mile a month. How did they make it to the Americas, where sloths just happen to exist in the fossil record? Where they of a fast moving, migrating, cold tolerating kind a few thousand years ago? Does this really make any sense? If they could get around so well why did they only get the Americas??
The giant spiny anteater (one of the echidna species) is also a slow moving clumsy animal but is supposed to have made it to New Guinea ahead of all nearly all the placental mammals.
How is it that Gila monsters got to the American Southwest and why did they not go to the much more convenient deserts around the Middle East instead? Did these desert reptiles cross an ice age land bridge? How did armadillos make it to the Americas while wildebeest, zebras and giraffe did not? The question is not only how these animals got where they were going but also why other animals equally well adapted for the destination and in many cases far more able and likely to travel did not.
YEC attempts to answer this problem that I have seen either address only a small part ignoring the whole or rely on absurdities such as people took them or they migrated there. I will discuss YEC pseudo solutions in my next post.
The Frumious Bandersnatch