How did animals get redistributed around the world after Noah's flood?

Question

Marsupials to Australia, New World monkeys to South America, Old World monkeys to Africa and Asia, etc.

In particular, why do island habitats such as New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Galapagos have many unique species of some Orders of animals, and none of other Orders. For example, the finches of the Galapagos, which fill the ecological niches held by other types of bird in other places? The evolutionary answer is that a couple of finches made it to the Galapagos and then evolved into many different species of finch, but what's the Biblical answer?

True, finches can fly, but the same problem applies to the various species of giant Galapagos land tortoise, which can neither fly nor swim.

If it's simply migration, why aren't species of animals distributed more uniformly? Why should ALL species of kangaroo go to Australia, leaving none near Mt Ararat or anywhere in Asia?

Paulie D -

I require that religion be consistent with the world as it is, and I am curious about everything in the world. Are you suggesting this question should not be asked?

Answer 1

Obviously if it were important for us to know, it would be in the bible.

Answer 2

The flewd substitute right into a metaphorical connection with the region, which substitute into like a tsunami or some thing hitting the area the place Biblical traditions have been practiced and stored. So Noah outfitted the arc, in spite of the undeniable fact that it in user-friendly terms had animals from the area and stuff. Evolution got here about before and after Noah and the flewd, and it did no longer fairly harm the full international. the international substitute into flat and small returned then, with much less mountains. The water evaporated and grew to become into clouds, that's why we've rain and snow in the present day.

Answer 3

Well, maybe they knew Earth is rounded and figured out that there may be land over there and there also after the flood ended so they started to transport animals on the other continents as well. Wouldn't we all do that if we ware them?
For sure the task of repopulating was big. Seams some species didn't make it on all continents.

We have proves that they knew Earth is rounded:

"It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in." Isaiah 40:22

"He stretches out the north over empty space
And hangs the earth on nothing." Job 26:7

Answer 4

The simple answer is they didn't. The Noah story is crap.
All environments, every island, mountaintop, has unique species. Noah's mob would have had to travel the whole world and take thousands of years collecting all the species. How did he hypothetically get American and Australian Fauna when he did not know these continents existed. The Noah story is based on the cultural memories of flooding of areas world wide following the decrease of glaciation (and rise of sea levels) at the end of the last ice age. Certainy somme people moved their livestock on boats to escape flooding

Answer 5

The same way people did. They multiplied and moved around.

They were fruitful as God knew they would be.

Another thing, they were not all the species we now have. They did like the pek-a-poo and and evolved from what was. Over time the new species became larger and they evolved on into still others.

Answer 6

Noah had the word passed throughout the ship that tomorrow he was going to have the biggest dam BBQ the world had ever seen and that it would be written up in the bibble and all the animals hauled their freight out of there.

Answer 7

The same way they got to the boat in the first place. According to Genisis 7:8-9
"Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded"

Answer 8

They didn't; there was no worldwide flood.

The YE Creationists have themselves in a trap because of the timeframe they suppose to the "flood"

Species could not have evolved at the speed required to produce the variety and distribution of species

Answer 9

Ufo's, helicoptors, the occassional tornado, and the witness relocation program. God had to divide the animals up so their stories wouldn't corraborate.

Answer 10

What difference would it make to you to know the definitive answer to that question? Would it make you turn to God and follow His way instead of your own?