[fishtank]

CMI article image

The skeleton of a platypus on display at a Gold Coast, Australia, exhibition of Ripley’s Believe it or Not. (CMI article caption)

In 1943, Winston Churchill requested David Fleay send him six live platypuses from Australia. Fleay, knowing how difficult it was for his animals to travel, settled on sending just one. Named ‘Winston’, he was placed in a platypusary specially designed to handle the long sea voyage on the MV Port Phillip, along with a huge supply of his favourite food. Remarkably, Winston was thriving on the ship until it was forced to launch a depth charge against a submarine. The nerve receptors in his highly sensitive bill could not cope with the violent explosion, and he died. Winston did make it to England, but the British Prime Minister had to settle for his new pet being mounted on his desk. (CMI article text)

Churchill, not shooting at a platypus.

[bert]

There are no evolutionists. there are enlightened folks who study and keep up on natural history

[4yearlurker]

"Do ya think God was smoking a joint when he made a Platypus?"-Robin Williams.

[Cold Heart]

The guy in the back of the picture is making sure there are some holes in the target.

[JimSEA]

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?

[lefty-lie-spy]

“Evolutionists”?
Must you do this crap, especially here?
The huge amount of evangelical and catholic posts here recently is very distracting from the Conservativism. God and religion related posts are fine, but it’s getting stupidly out of control by a few of our members posting vanities unrelentingly.

[dfwgator]

[the OlLine Rebel]

ping for later

[Vaquero]

Monotremes. Like the echidna or (spiny anteater) and platypus. These are egg laying mammals. This early mammal branch never evolved past this stage. Not all creatures evolve as fast as others.
Mammals existed before dinosaurs and was kept down By the more advanced (at this early point ) and bigger more aggressive dinosaurs.

Divergent evolution gave the platypus a flat bill and poison glands/injector in their hind legs. Early mammals were egg layers. Some lines never evolved from this method of procreation.

[Mr. K]

So a mammal ‘evolved’ a beak, like a bird. Just by random chance.

I think some horny beaver got it on with a duck and it took.

[left that other site]

The Platypus is proof that God has a sense of humor.

[Mr. K]

Some ‘eveloution’ proponent told me how an eyeball could evolve.

1) a living organization has a ‘bump’

2) the bump senses shadows (

3) it evolves into a bigger bump

4) eventually it forms a small hole forming a ‘keyhole’ camera.

5) it becomes and eye.

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.

[taxcontrol]

I am convinced that the platypus is the best evidence that God has a sense of humor and said “Let’s see the evolutionists explain that!”

[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.”

[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

[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

[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."

[hoagy62]

I think the platypus is God’s middle finger to Darwin. “Okay, smart guy...figure THIS one out!”

[WayneS]

It’s a beaverduck.

[WayneS]

Fro the article: (Marsupials, too, were once considered to be exclusive to Australia, but their fossils have now been found on every continent.)

"Considered" by whom? Certainly not by any European naturalists.

Possums have been all over North America for tens of thousands of years - and North America was extensively explored long before any Europeans started studying Australia.