The platypus - Still more questions than answers for evolutionists

Creation Ministries International ^ | 12-7-16 | Paula Weston

[GOPJ]

Australia - hmmmmm where all the really strange stuff comes from... Something ‘snakelike’ about the platypus too....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus_venom

“The platypus is one of the few living mammals to produce venom. Males have a pair of spurs on their hind limbs which secrete venom that is only seasonally active to breeding season, supporting the theory that the use of venom is for competition of mates only, not protection. While the spur remains available for defense outside of breeding season, the platypus’s venom gland lacks secretion.[1] While the after effects are described as excruciatingly painful, this venom is not lethal to humans.”

[allblues]

Every time I read an article on evolution I am reminded of how vast the faith of evolutionists is, as compared to the faith of those who believe in a Creator.

[tophat9000]

And when God got done creating all the animals he swept together all the leftovers bits into one pile and created the duck-billed platypus

[TexasGator]

“Interestingly, the retina of cephalopods – octopi and squid – is not inverted. The cephalopod eye and the vertebrate eye, while strikingly similar, evolved completely independently of one another. Nature “invented” the camera-like eye at least twice, once in vertebrates and once in cephalopods. (Insects, arachnids, and crustaceans have an entirely different type of eye.) During the evolution of the cephalopod eye, the retina took shape in a more logical way, with the photoreceptors facing outward toward the light. Vertebrates were not so lucky.”

https://thehumanevolutionblog.com/2015/01/12/the-poor-design-of-the-human-eye/

[papertyger]

Very impressive verbiage, but if it were wrong, how would you know?

[Bob434]

I heard the same idiotic explanation only it was an ‘eyeless skink’ that had a stick fall on it’s head- created an indent, and over time that indent ‘sensed more and more light’ until eventually by some miracle, a supernatural process was able to evolve an eye ‘out of necessity’

[Buttons12]

I’m not seeing Gen. Eisenhower in that photo.
I am seeing Churchill’s American side, however. :)

[BigDaddyTX]

He looks right handed and left eye dominant

[Red Badger]

‘Godzilla platypus’ fossil discovered in Australia

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/godzilla-platypus-fossil-discovered-in-australia/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3088387/posts

[Yashcheritsiy]

there are enlightened folks who study and keep up on natural history

You're right. Those folks aren't evolutionists, either.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Clever little creature to make it from Mount Ararat to Australia without leaving any signs of its passage in the oceans and land masses in between. All that in a couple hundred years, at most. He hitched a ride with the Kangaroos and Kolas?

The least the little creep could have done would be to have left some transitional fossils around so that evolution seemed at least half-way credible.

[Red Badger]

Same day from another perspective...............

[Red Badger]

General Dwight D. Eisenhower squeezes off some rounds with wartime colleagues Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General Omar Bradley, 1945. As president, Eisenhower installed a skeet shooting range at Camp David.

Same day from another perspective...............

[papertyger]

HOLY COW!

THAT is Omar Bradley? By the time I saw him on television he was an emaciated old man in a wheelchair.

[Buttons12]

Yes, THAT one’s Eisenhower.

[N. Theknow]

Years ago, my oldest daughter came to me just before Easter. As an intelligent 2nd grader she asked why there was an Easter bunny as bunnies were mammals and as such could not produce eggs, much less colored Easter eggs.

In a calm, reasoned voice I told her that the Easter Bunny was only made up to take attention away from the mammal that was responsible for really delivering Easter eggs...the duckbill platypus!

Now, some 35 years later, our family still celebrates Easter by exchanging gifts to each other from "Bill."

[Mr. Lucky]

Not the most gracious comment ever posted.

[DungeonMaster]

The stupidity of this is amazing.

You have to have true belief. It assumes the ‘bump’ on the first creature is inherited by all its children. Then it assumes the skin around this bump has some way to sense light. Then it evolves a bump with a keyhole- I think the probability of infection as this keyhole fills with dirt is higher than it evolving into an eye.

An eye is something that only works if it exists all at once.

Here is one I bought into when I was an evolutionist atheist teenager. It's about how termites could evolve into building radio telescopes if it was important for their survival. What a joke! http://postcivilateum.blogspot.com/2008/10/termites-and-telescopes.html

[TexasGator]

“Very impressive verbiage, but if it were wrong, how would you know?”

If it was wrong, you would tell me.

[papertyger]

If it was wrong, you would tell me.

Incorrect. I'm asking you to point out the rival conjecture: your "null hypothesis" as it were. The hope being that recognizing you can not produce one, you would recognize your position is far less "scientific" than you presume.