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When I Consider! – Platypus

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When I Consider!

When I Consider!

Evidence from Biology

“Some animals, such as the duckbilled platypus, have organs that completely confound evolutionary explanation. The platypus has a mixture of features from animals completely unrelated to its supposed ancestry. For instance:

  1. The warm-blooded platypus feeds its babies milk like other mammals.
  2. It lays leathery eggs, has a single ventral opening (for eliminating its waste, mating, and birth), and has claws and a shoulder girdle like most reptiles.
  3. It can detect electrical currents like some fish.
  4. It has webbed feet like an otter, a flat tail like a beaver, and the male can inject poison into its predator like a snake.
  5. It has a bill like a duck.
Platypus From Creation Wiki

Platypus From Creation Wiki

It would seem that animals such as the platypus are God’s reminder of His unfathomable creativity. These animals combine features from many unrelated creatures and have no logical place on the evolutionary tree.” There is no direct evidence that any major group of animals (or plants) arose from any other group. Completely different types of animals are only observed going out of existence (extinctions), never coming into existence.”

In the Beginning, 7th Ed., p.7

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts. I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, And on Your wondrous works. Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, And I will declare Your greatness. (Psalms 145:3-6 NKJV)

From A Closer Look at the Evidence, Richard and Tina Kleiss, Aug 3

Interesting Things – The Platypus more information and a great song about it by Buddy Davis.

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Photos of Platypus by Ian of Birdway.

Interesting Things – The Platypus

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Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. (Revelation 4:11 KJV)

Scientific classification

Platypus From Creation Wiki

Platypus From Creation Wiki

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Monotremata
Family: Ornithorhynchidae
Genus: Ornithorhynchus
Blumenbach, 1800
Species: O. anatinus

The platypus is roughly half the size of a household cat. It has a thick covering of waterproof hair over all of its body, except for its feet and bill. It is a member of the Monotreme family, which are mammals that lay eggs.

The male platypus’s body is about 20-23 inches long and the female is about 17-18 inches long. The platypus has a thick covering of waterproof hair all over its body except for the feet and bill. The platypus’s sensitive, pliable bill is a blue-gray, blackish color with the two nostril holes near the tip. The location of the nostrils allows the platypus to breath while the rest of the body stays under the water. The platypus does not have external ears. The platypus has four legs which extend horizontally from its body. This arrangement makes it walk on land with a shuffle like a lizard.

During breeding season, males can fight each other and the venom in their spurs becomes more poisonous. The platypus is the only Australian mammal known to be venomous. The female platypus lays one to three round eggs, which have soft and leathery shells, in a nest made of wet leaves and grass. In the wild, reproductive activity takes place from winter to late spring. The baby platypus suckles the milk excreted from a “milk field” on the mother’s belly; there are no nipples.

The modern platypus is found among the freshwater systems of eastern Australia. The platypus is an excellent swimmer and spends much of its time in the water. It feeds on worms and insect larvae, freshwater shrimp and crayfish that it digs out of the river-bed with its snout or catches while swimming. The platypus automatically shuts both its eyes and ears when it dives, and so relies almost entirely on its bill to find food and navigate underwater.

Evolutionists claim that the platypus is evidence of evolution since it is so strange. This is because they start with an assumption that the platypus evolved so of course they see it as evidence for that. In reality the platypus is more evidence for the amazing intelligence of God’s design. Truly only a super-Intelligent Designer could make such an amazing combination of mammalian and reptilian features in a single creature.

Here is an interesting article about the Platypus from Creation Magazine-24(2):40–43, March 2002 by Paula Weston

The platypus – Still more questions than answers for evolutionists

Buddy Davis singing about a Platypus.
It’s Designed To Do What It Does Do-Buddy Davis Song

Here is another interesting video of the Platypus from Australia

References:
Platypus – at Creation Wiki
Platypus – at Wikipedia