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> You are the one stating that this proves evolution.

Actually, you’re the one who has said it is a better proof for Creation. I’m calling your bluff.

> I have no idea.

I do. These animals evolved here, and adapted to precisely suit the unique flora and fauna that also evolved here contemporaneously. And because until the arrival of Man on our islands, they had no natural predators so they lived here undisturbed at the top of their food chains. That is how the Tuatara was able to remain as the fragile last of a line of animals that nearly died out with the Dinosaurs.

What these animals DIDN’T do is travel here on Noah’s Ark — which is precisely what they would have had to do if we are expected to take the Genesis record literally. They did not swim here, and they could not fly here, they did not build rafts and float here on wood, and they could not hold their breath until the Great Flood waters receded (to where? — for there isn’t enough water on the planet to submerge it uniformly to a depth of 29,000 feet: do the sums and convince yourself!)

Having proven that the Genesis record cannot be taken completely literally, we are left with the task of re-assembling what really, actually did happen, and the likely timeframe for that to have occurred. That is a task best left to Evolutionists — reserving only the proviso that it all happened under God’s control, for His purposes, and at His direction. For that, too, is provable.