Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!rmooney From: rmooney@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Creationists & Kangaroos - (nf) Message-ID: <6074@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 22:40:13 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6074 Posted: Wed Mar 7 22:40:13 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 01:38:20 EST Lines: 30 #N:uicsl:7500052:000:1619 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