[__ Science __ ] The Platypus Is an Evolutionary Puzzle—Have They Finally Solved It?

[AIG.com]

The platypus continues to baffle evolutionists with its webbed feet, glowing fur (in UV light) and venom—but it makes sense in a God-ordered world.

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[Truthfrees]

The platypus continues to baffle evolutionists with its webbed feet, glowing fur (in UV light) and venom—but it makes sense in a God-ordered world.

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amen - great post

 

[Truthfrees]

Dr. Georgia Purdom, AiG geneticist, explains:

The platypus is very unique because it shares features with mammals, birds, and reptiles. It’s quite the puzzle for evolutionists to imagine what it might have evolved from! Now that the platypus genome has been decoded, scientists have woven together a STORY about genes lost and gained through millions of years of evolutionary history to make the platypus what it is today. It is an amazing feat that with today’s technology we can sequence the genome of nearly any organism.
However, that DNA sequence doesn’t tell us that the creature really did evolve, how that creature evolved, when it evolved, or what it evolved from. That information is imposed on the data by scientists that start with an evolutionary worldview. For example, they claim the platypus lost a couple vitellogenin genes (needed to make eggs) and gained casein genes (needed for milk). But there’s no evidence to support that! They just OBSERVE that the platypus has one vitellogenin gene (unlike the chicken, which has three of these genes) and that it has casein genes. These are the facts!

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[Barbarian]

AIG is quite aware that the platypus has no apomorphic bird characteristics at all. It has webbed feet like those of many other mammals and reptiles. It lays reptilian-like eggs, has reptilian cloaca and shoulder girdle, but has fur, is warm-blooded, and nurses its young. It is a transitional form between advanced therapsid reptiles and eutherian mammals. No bird stuff. No feathers, no beak (the bill of the platypus is more like the bill of certain therapsids, and has the therapsid/mammal jaw/ear structure unlike that of a bird. Vitellogenin is present in all egg-laying vertebrates, including reptiles. So it is not an apomorphic character of birds.

Platypuses today have no teeth. But there is a fossil platypus that still had teeth.
About the size of a child, the largest-known platypus roamed what is now Australia as far back as 15 million years ago, according to newfound fossil remains of the giant monotreme.

A team of paleontologists from the University of New South Wales in Australia identified the new species, called Obdurodon tharalkooschild, based on a single molar they discovered in the Riversleigh fossil field in northwestern Queensland, Australia. From measurements of the molar, the scientists have estimated the animal grew to be about 1 meter long (3.3 feet), which is twice the size of a modern platypus, and larger than the previously largest-known platypus ancestor, Obdurdon dicksoni.
https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/fossil-largest-platypus-ever-discovered-australia-8C11527619

The phylogeny of monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals is no mystery.

 

[Barbarian]