What do Creationists say?
Scott Huse (1983) starts his discussion of the platypus by saying: “Evolutionists insist that the duck-billed platypus is an evolutionary link between mammals and birds.” This quote in itself is enough to show how abysmal Huse’s knowledge of evolution is. Evolutionists say nothing of the sort. Anyone who reads any evolutionary literature, even at a basic level, will quickly find out that birds are thought to have evolved from dinosaurs in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, and that mammals are thought to have evolved from a reptile-like group of animals called the therapsids in the Triassic about 220 million years ago. No competent evolutionist has ever claimed that platypuses are a link between birds and mammals. Huse may believe that the platypus is thought to be a link between mammals and birds because of its “duckbill”. In fact, scientists have always known that the bill has nothing in common with that of a duck except for the shape. The bill of a duck is a hard keratin stru
