so how did the animals get from the ark to australia?

Question

I just read many people apparently believe the flood actually happened. So, how do you believe the kangaroos got to australia?

some people say Pangaea, but doesn't it take hundreds of thousands of years for landmasses to move like that? that would mean the flood happened more than 6000 years ago...

Answer 1

That is a good question, and I'll ask God that , among many others, just as soon as I get to heaven.

Answer 2

One possibility is Pangaea, and the Bible may refer to that in Genesis 10:25 which says: " And unto Eber were born two sons; the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. There are other explanations for this verse, but the dividing of Pangaea is another. See this site. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peleg

So when those kangaroos jumped ship, they headed back to the area they had come from in the first place. When the land divided, there they were marooned on what would later be named Australia. Right, Mate? :-)

Answer 3

Even if you don't believe in a global flood, you still have to answer the same question.

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...Finally, the Updated and Expanded Answers Book [reviewed here] has a chapter about how koalas got to Australia, as well as many other “unanswerable” arguments by Isaak. Migration patterns explain some of them, but another important factor is introduction by humans. That’s how the rabbit reached Australia, and the Australian marsupials could have arrived with post-Babel humans. It’s also very important to note that, despite the caricatures by Isaak and other bibliosceptics, Noah did not need to gather the animals from different parts of the world: Gen. 1:9 indicates that there was one land mass before the Flood, and Gen. 6:20 indicates that God brought the animals to Noah....

...Isaak: “John Baumgardner created the runaway subduction model, which proposes that the pre-flood lithosphere (ocean floor), being denser than the underlying mantle, began sinking. The heat released in the process decreased the viscosity of the mantle, so the process accelerated catastrophically. All the original lithosphere became subducted; the rising magma which replace it raised the ocean floor, causing sea levels to rise and boiling off enough of the ocean to cause 150 days of rain. When it cooled, the ocean floor lowered again, and the Flood waters receded. Sedimentary mountains such as the Sierras and the Andes rose after the Flood by isostatic rebound. [Baumgardner, 1990a; Austin et al., 1994]

“The main difficulty of this theory is that it admittedly doesn’t work without miracles. [Baumgardner, 1990a, 1990b] The thermal diffusivity of the earth, for example, would have to increase 10,000 fold to get the subduction rates proposed [Matsumura, 1997. (National Center for Science Education, a pretentiously named organisation totally devoted to promoting evolution. Its roots are firmly in atheistic humanism)], and miracles are also necessary to cool the new ocean floor and to raise sedimentary mountains in months rather than in the millions of years it would ordinarily take.”

Response: Some of Dr Baumgardner’s papers are available online, e.g.: Computer modeling of the large-scale tectonics associated with the Genesis Flood and Runaway subduction as the driving mechanism for the Genesis Flood. As for Isaak’s criticisms, I e-mailed Dr Baumgardner, who pointed out that these critics had not read his work properly, and didn’t understand the science. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, since Isaak apparently didn’t read the Bible or Woodmorappe’s book properly either, and has demonstrated crass scientific incompetence in other areas. Dr Baumgardner wrote as follows:

Baumgardner: “If these critics had read my papers carefully, they would have learned that a low thermal diffusivity actually aids the runaway mechanism. Whether or not the runaway occurs at all depends on a competition between heat production due to deformation and heat loss due to thermal diffusion. Low, rather than high, thermal diffusivity assists this process.

The timing of the uplift of today’s high mountain ranges is actually a problem for the uniformitarians. The current uplift rate for the Himalayas of 1–2 cm/year, for example, implies 10-20 km (or 33,000-66,000 feet) uplift per million years! Again, if the critics had read my papers, they would know my time scale for the isostatic rebound is the centuries after the catastrophe rather than months.”...

Answer 4

Actually, Pangea is how I think they got there too. I've done some research into this very question, and most Biblical scientists also believe something very similar to Pangea, if not the thing itself.

Answer 5

I was rather shocked to learn that people actually believe this also. The answers you'll recieve here will truly stun you...


(But in the end, if you debate this subject for all of 5 minutes, they will all admit the same thing. The flood story is impossible. However, they will not admit that it didn't happen. Therefore, they will basically explain that god did it via miracles. In essence, what they will try their best not to say is...

Magic!)

Answer 6

People could have brought them there, in addition, there are reports of animals floating on vegetation for hundreds of miles, so that's another possibility.

Answer 7

Qantas

Answer 8

if pangea is a fact then the animals would still have to travel a heck of a long way to get to the ark.
omg its just a myth, a local flood blown up out of proportion.
people told stories in those days you know. duh!

Answer 9

Pangaea, FTW!

Answer 10

More important than that, how did Australian Pines get to Florida? What's going on with that? Impossible feat, you have to admit.