How did the kangaroos make it to Australia?
– Creationists like to think that Noah’s flood did happen, and that Noah herded animals onto his floating zoo, and they landed at Mount Ararat. Fine, but how did the kangaroo make it all the way to Australia? In the light of evolution, we can explain that the earliest marsupials came from North America. Over 40 million years they made their way to South America, and later to Australia. As to how they crossed the ocean, they didn’t. The continents were connected; I present to you, the supercontinent Gondwana. Look at the above map of Gondwana. This means that the marsupials must have crossed Antarctica to get to Australia. Surely enough, evolution made a prediction, and scientists went over there and looked, and yes, they found marsupial fossils in Antarctica. 2. Why can’t a kiwi bird fly? – Kiwis are native New Zealand birds, and they are endangered, because they cannot fly away from their predators. It’s a similar story with the Australian emu. I have actually asked a few creationists
