Date: Fri Jul 27 2007 - 15:21:45 EDT
Peter
That doesn't seem to be on conservapedia now but this is
"According to the origins theory model used by young earth creation scientists, modern kangaroos are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah's Ark prior to the Great Flood. It has not yet been determined by baraminologists whether kangaroos form a holobaramin with the wallaby, tree-kangaroo, wallaroo, pademelon and quokka, or if all these species are in fact apobaraminic or polybaraminic.
After the Flood, these kangaroos bred from the Ark passengers migrated to Australia. There is debate whether this migration happened over land[6] with lower sea levels during the post-flood ice age, or before the supercontinent of Pangea broke apart[7], or if they rafted on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters.[6] The idea that God simply generated kangaroos into existence there is considered by most creation researchers to be contra-Biblical. "
I am afraid it is difficult not to laugh at all this. I wont go into baramins but to put the break-up of Pangaea (nonsic!) in the Flood is completely contradicted by all geology .
You need to realise that YEC arguments are always so absurd and often full of systematic distortions that the first reaction is to laugh at the utter nonsense of them and then if one is masochistic to refute them point by point.
I don't see design and evolution in contradiction but I would want to ask why God designed the Ebola virus.
Michael
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From: Peter Loose
To: asa@calvin.edu
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 11:23 AM
Subject: [asa] Designed Kangaroos?
Friends - I have been off-line for some time due to computer hijack issues (and that despite running all the latest tools to keep free of these pests out there!) but when I came back on I saw a report about laughing at the idea that a Kangaroo's legs were designed for leaping. I think I also saw comments about some being 'embarrassed' by this observation.
I am intrigued. Would someone explain which part or parts are laughable and why?
Blessings
Peter
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