RationalWiki:Article of the Weak/Post-flood Marsupial Migration Explained



Article of the Weak: Post-flood Marsupial Migration Explained Robert Byers tackles one of evolution's strongest pieces of evidence - biogeography. Evolution's ability to describe why certain taxonomical orders exist in one location, and not others, is one of the theory's great strengths over creationism, which can't give a suitable answer to the question: "why don't kangaroos live in the Middle East"? Byers chooses to sidestep the whole issue by never telling the reader the difference between a marsupial and placental mammal, instead deciding to focus on Biblical kinds. He never does explain why almost every animal that migrated to Australia needed to "adapt" (not evolve) to having a pouch and give birth to an underdeveloped child. Apparently this makes more sense than the "evolutionists'" argument that there was initially one pouched species - that through adaptive radiation - is the common ancestor to the great diversity we see today.

Convergent evolution and biogeography

 * Biogeography
 * Converging lines of evidence
 * Continental drift, marsupials and placental mammals
 * The Natural History of Marsupials
 * Wallace Line

Wikipedia on Mammalia

 * Marsupial
 * Eutheria
 * Monotreme - ignored in this article but another order of Mammalia, found only in Australia

Humorous

 * Kangaroos of the Middle East
 * Not even wrong