Doesn't the platypus defy evolution and prove that it was created by God?

Question

The have ten sex chromosomes, the means by which gender is determined in them is unknown, according to the way fossil records are dated they have been around since the dinosaurs, they appear to share genes with birds, and the males are venomous.

Answer 1

I'd say that evolutionists would have a rather difficult time fitting the little guy into a box...
But then, they do some impressive tap dancing, don't they?
(Evolutionists, that is, not the Platypi)

Answer 2

How does platypus defy evolution? It just prove it evolve slower or has no requirement to evolve further, just like the crocodiles and alligators.

Hows does that prove that it was created by god? I do not see a giant hand molding it.

So what if they have ten sex chromosomes and the males are venomous? A T-Rex shared the same genes with a Chicken, so that does not proof some giant sky daddy created them.

Answer 3

Gee, I guess it kind of proves evolution. 110 million year old fossils and specialization that doesn't occur in its predecessors.
"Four species related to Platypus have been found in fossil deposits from Australia, including a complete skull of Obdurodon dicksoni and an opalised jaw fragment of Steropodon galmani. The latter is 110 million years old and represents one of Australia's oldest mammals. The only evidence that Platypus ancestors were once present outside Australia came in 1991, when a 61 - 63 million year old fossil tooth was found in Patagonia, in southern Argentina.
Studies of these fossils indicate that the one remaining living species of Platypus is more specialized than its predecessors. It is smaller, its functional teeth have been replaced by horny pads and other aspects of its anatomy appear simpler. It also appears to have a more restricted distribution, being confined to the river systems of eastern Australia. Although Platypus remains widespread and reasonably common, this trend towards increasing specialization suggests that it may be moving out onto an evolutionary 'limb' and that its current status should not be taken for granted."

Answer 4

No, not really.

Their closest living relative genetically is exactly what cladistics would suggest - the aechidnae, the other living monotreme.

You also share DNA with birds, just like a platypus - after all the synapsids and diapsids did have common ancestors in the Permian, and shared a two hundred million year journey in common before that (after the evolution of the phylum Chordata.)

Venom has evolved independently in various vertebrates and invertibrates. This is quite unremarkable.

Answer 5

They are monotremes, and they're not that odd. There used to be a lot more of them, but now there are only a few species.

Even we share genes with birds, because we share a common ancestor. The platypus bill looks like a duck, but it's entirely different material and has nothing in common with a ducks.

You're scraping the bottom here. If you really want to know how a platypus evolved, go ask biology rather than all of us humanities majors. You're being disingenuous and deceptive by suggesting that the platypus disproves evolution. It doesn't.

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Answer 6

Not at all. There is a basic rundown on Wiki. They broke off early mammals and rather out on a limb by itself. But There are transitions found most of the way back. Given how few fossils there are in Australia in general, they actually have a pretty decent line: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus

Answer 7

This more so proves evolution because they have adapted so uniquely

Alligators and mice have been around since the dinosaurs so that point proves nothing.
Humans share many genes with yeast. This is because humans evolved from yeast and platypi probably evolved from birds. So what if they are venomous. That is just another adaptation brougfht on by evolution.

Answer 8

He is harder to fit in than most evolutionist would like to admit (turtles have the same problem you know, they are very modified animals with a very very old confusing fossil record), still he dosen't defy evolution, there is a lot of things we still don't know and the evolutive history of the platipus is one of them (we have an idea though, i think you should check your sources), the story of turtles is another, none of it defies evolution though

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Answer 9

Given their cousins the echidnas, share many traits, it is evidence for evolution. Further, the fact that the platypus sex chromosomes are related molecularly to those in other mammals is further proof of common descent (evolution).

Answer 10

Yes, it most certainly does!!!!

In a statement to the press yesterday, Richard Dawkins admits, "I was such a smug atheist until I saw a picture of the platypus a week ago. Now I've renounced science and 'evilution', praise Jesus!"

Soon after, all the other scientific bigwigs, confounded by the one creationist proof that wasn't specious or contrived, fell on their knees and got religion. Scientific journals all over the world stopped printing papers on molecular biology and genetic drift, and started printing articles flat-earth geology and geocentrism.

Worst of all, millions of atheists smote their chests and proclaimed, "Yes, their stupid 'Evolution refutes the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics' argument was really silly, and they have a habit of quoting Darwin and others out of context--but we simply cannot make sense of the duck-billed platypus at all! It's irrefutable!"




Either that, or you creationists are living in Fool's Paradise......

Answer 11

There is a saying, a little bit of knowledge is more dangerous than none.

This would be a prime example.

You cannot argue about something you clearly have very little information about. If you truly want the answers to your questions, you have a computer, almost all the knowledge of the planet is available to you. Why do you not take advantage of it, and arm yourself with a bit more of a knowledge arsenal.

The enlightenment could be quite life changing.