Did KANGAROOS evolve from some other animal?

Answer 1

No evidence of evolution from other animals
Some evolutionary scientists claim that that kangaroos evolved from possums. However, there are no fossils of animals which are part possum and part kangaroo. The oldest kangaroo fossil is clearly a kangaroo, totally and completely (it greatly resembles the potoroos which dwell in Victoria’s forests). If modern kangaroos really did come from it, all this shows is the same as we see happening today, namely that kangaroos come from kangaroos, ‘after their kind.’

Kangaroos are wonderful examples of God’s craftsmanship, designed by a Creator who knew perfectly what He was doing. To Him all praise, glory and honour is forever due.

Answer 2

The Macropod family is alleged to have evolved from either the Phalangeridae (possums) or Burramyidae (pygmy-possums) during the so-called Oligocene epoch some 30 million years ago.

However, there are no fossils of animals which appear to be intermediate between possums and kangaroos. Wabularoo naughtoni, supposed ancestor of all the macropods, was clearly a kangaroo (it greatly resembles the potoroos which dwell in Victoria’s forests).If modern kangaroos really did come from it, all this shows is the same as we see happening today, namely that kangaroos come from kangaroos, ‘after their kind’.

A stunning example of this is the modern rock-wallabies. When John Gould first made notes of these animals last century he mentioned only six species. Later ten species were counted, and now a total of 15 are recognized. Current research is indicating that these wallabies are still splitting into new species.

However, such instances of one group ‘splitting’ into more groups is not evolution, as Creation magazine has pointed out repeatedly. The reason is that no new genetic information arises during such events.


Creationists have postulated that such speciation must have happened many times after the Flood, as populations of creatures separated by valleys or mountain ranges have adapted to environmental conditions within their territories. Some of the original population’s genes enable their owners to survive in their particular environments, while other genes are lost to such natural selection. However, all the genes were present in the original population. Each ‘daughter’ population carries somewhat less of this information, so is less able to respond to future environmental changes.

They are all still rock-wallabies, and these changes did not take millions of years. In fact, seeing such ‘adaptive radiation’ happen so quickly is a great boon to creationist models. It shows how there would have been ample time since Noah’s Flood for all known kangaroo types to have come from one or a very few original kinds.

Evolutionists explain the wide variety of kangaroos and their specialised survival methods as millions of years of trial and effort, chance mutation and selection. However, kangaroos’ superb design, their sophisticated reproductive methods and their amazing, energy-efficient locomotion did not come by any evolutionary process. For example, unless the pouch and the joey’s ability to find it were fully functional, they would have left no offspring.

Kangaroos are ingenious examples of God’s craftsmanship, designed by a Creator who knew perfectly what He was doing. To Him all praise, glory and honour is forever due.

Answer 3

Creation science is an oxymoron.

Creation scientists are fundamentally deluded by a patriarchal notion of God sold through a powerful propaganda machine to simplify the complex nature of life. I respect your relationship with God/Allah/JHWA/Krishna/Shiva/Oggbert the slug but don't try to tell me that your particular (heavilly edited) version of the Bible (which ignores the lost sea scrolls) has anything to do with anything except faith. Religious fundamentalists are all the same. All mental, no fun. And yes, that include the half-blind creation scientists. I normally hol back but this time your cut and paste anti-evolution garbage has got my goat. I suppose that you look Chinese when both your parents are Afro-American? Do you not believe in genetic traits? The main problem you people have is a complete failure to comprehend long periods of time. If you imagine 1 mm equals a year, then 1 metre = 1000 years, and 1 kilometre = 1 million years. We are talking about kilometres when we are talking evolution, not the metres that you people believe that the Earth has existed for. Every time something is found in the fossil record you don't see a gap being plugged, you see two more gaps being created. Get out of my face!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

I use wikipedia.


Prehistoric kangaroo genera
* Procoptodon, largest leaf-eating kangaroo[10]
* Sthenurus "Strong Tail"[11]
* Propleopus, carnivorous kangaroo during the pliocene and pleistocene periods (e.g. giant rat kangaroo)[10][12]
* Simosthenurus, leaf-eating (browsing) kangaroos[10]


There!

Answer 5

Every single animal alive today evolved from a different species.

Answer 6

Well I don't know but I was wondering why you are so fascinated with KANGAROOS?because I came across some fifteen questions on KANGAROOS asked by you.Do let me know.

Answer 7

Yes, they did. According the theories of evolutionism, all living species were developed from one original species. The animals in Australia however have been in isolation for a long period of time, so they are very different that the animals of continents that are connected.

Answer 8

I heard that there were giant kangaroos before people and now they are much smaller.

Answer 9

Yes, Grasshopper.

Answer 10

If you believe in evolution..everything on earth evolved from something else.