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serapha
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Recently we read an article in a science magazine entitled "Instant
Evolution." The article told of a new species of miniature kangaroo that
has developed on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. It has been named the
Kalihi rock wallaby.
A pair of Australian wallabies escaped from a zoo in Hawaii in 1916.
Since that time (just about 70 years) the descendants of that first pair
have produced a population of several hundred members. But they don't
look like their Australian ancestors, and therein lies a mystery that
has somewhat baffled the zoologists studying these cute little fellows.
In less than 60 generations these small marsupials (pouched mammals)
have managed to produce a type of wallaby that is smaller, lighter in
color, and - most remarkable of all - has a different biochemical
make-up, allowing it to eat plants in Hawaii that would have been
inedible to its Australian forefathers. In human terms, it would be like
producing a completely different type of people somewhere on earth in
less than 1500 years - people who not only look different but are able
to live in an environment that is radically different from that of their
forefathers.
Given the length of time that most evolutionists believe it takes to do
what these little wallabies did in such a short time, James Laxell, the
zoologist who described them as a new species, said, "To evolve into an
entirely new species in only sixty generations . . . that's pretty
spectacular." Is this spectacular to those of us who believe that all of
the creatures in the world have diversified to what they are today in
only about 6,000 years?
For more on the Kalihi Rock Wallaby visit:
http://www.royle.abel.co.uk/slwap/animals/rockwall.htm
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/artic ... ln24a.html
Source: Glimpses of God's Love by James A. Tucker and Priscilla Tucker,
Copyright (c) 1983 by Review and Herald Publishing Association,
http://isbn.nu/0828002169
Evolution." The article told of a new species of miniature kangaroo that
has developed on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. It has been named the
Kalihi rock wallaby.
A pair of Australian wallabies escaped from a zoo in Hawaii in 1916.
Since that time (just about 70 years) the descendants of that first pair
have produced a population of several hundred members. But they don't
look like their Australian ancestors, and therein lies a mystery that
has somewhat baffled the zoologists studying these cute little fellows.
In less than 60 generations these small marsupials (pouched mammals)
have managed to produce a type of wallaby that is smaller, lighter in
color, and - most remarkable of all - has a different biochemical
make-up, allowing it to eat plants in Hawaii that would have been
inedible to its Australian forefathers. In human terms, it would be like
producing a completely different type of people somewhere on earth in
less than 1500 years - people who not only look different but are able
to live in an environment that is radically different from that of their
forefathers.
Given the length of time that most evolutionists believe it takes to do
what these little wallabies did in such a short time, James Laxell, the
zoologist who described them as a new species, said, "To evolve into an
entirely new species in only sixty generations . . . that's pretty
spectacular." Is this spectacular to those of us who believe that all of
the creatures in the world have diversified to what they are today in
only about 6,000 years?
For more on the Kalihi Rock Wallaby visit:
http://www.royle.abel.co.uk/slwap/animals/rockwall.htm
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/artic ... ln24a.html
Source: Glimpses of God's Love by James A. Tucker and Priscilla Tucker,
Copyright (c) 1983 by Review and Herald Publishing Association,
http://isbn.nu/0828002169