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Subject: Creationists & Kangaroos - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 22:40:13 EST
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uicsl!rmooney    Mar  7 10:50:00 1984

    I just thought I would bring up  amazing fact regarding creationism.
Believe it our not there is one phenomenon which the creationists have
not yet concocted a ridiculous scenario for to fit it into there "origins
model". Or at least A. Ray Miller, who has nice little quotes for almost
every other issue neatly arrranged on notecards, could not give us a reply
to.  

    This is the phenomenon of geographical distribution of life.  That is,
,for example, Why are "all" the marsupials in Australia?  Evolution accounts
for this very nicely, it says they all evolved from a common stock that was
isolated on this land mass when it broke off.  Creationists cannot account
for it in any other way than saying that for some strange reason the creator 
decided to put them all there (i.e. That's the way the creator created it!)
The preposterous flood arguement will not help them here.  There is no reason
why such a vast array of animals, which fill many different ecological niches,
would be in any one area and therefore all be isolated together.

    This is the only technical point I have found which A. Ray does not have
a standard creationist reply for.  Certainly some creationist somewhere should
be working on this problem and formulating an appropriately distorted scenario
to account for it.  I find creationists a particularly apt name, they certain-
ly can be creative at times; in fact maybe they should call it "Creative 
Science" instead of "Creation Science".  

                  Ray Mooney
                  ...ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsl!rmooney
                  University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign