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From: dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Isolation and Unique Species
Message-ID: <300@scgvaxd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-May-85 16:14:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 16:14:34 1985
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In article <822@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) writes:
>How could new species appear in isolated regions if they didn't evolve?
> [Jeff Sonntag]
>     So should we just add this one to the list of phenomena which is easily
> explained by evolution and ignored by creationists?
> This phenomena exists:  Isolated habitats often support a large
>variety of species which are found nowhere else.  There is a correlation
>between the number of unique species in an isolated habitat and the length
>of time that habit has been isolated.  Obviously, this phenomena is
>easily explained with the use of evolution.  Can creationists explain it?
>If so, how?  No strawmen here, Paul.
>-- 
>Jeff Sonntag

  This is really not a very big problem for creationists. Animals have
  been known to migrate over very long distances. "The Migration of Animals",
  L.H. Mathews.
  As a creationist who believes in catastrophist geology (The Flood), I would
  suggest that after leaving the Ark, many animals migrated into different
  parts of the world into places that were better suited for them
  to live. Or, many animals may have migrated because of an over abundance
  in one particular area. A. Franklin Schull, an evolutionist, makes
  this point in his book, "Evolution", on page 60. And in "Genes, Genesis,
  and Evolution", John W. Klotz, (an evolutionist), states concerning
  the fact that many marsupials and monotremes are found nowhere in the
  world except Austrailia, "It may be that these forms have become extinct
  in Asia and along tha Malay Peninsula. Possibly they were able to live
  in some of these areas for only a short time and travelled almost
  immediately to those places included in their present range." p. 226.

  Rachel L. Carson, "The Sea Around us" page 89, ...riding on the winds,
  drifting on the currents, or rafting in on logs, floating brush, or trees,
  the plants and animals...arive from the distant continents.

  Of course, these facts can not prove either creation or evolution, but
  let it be pointed out creation is not at odds or contrary to what we
  know to be true concerning the behaviour of animals and their habitats.


					    Dan

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  @There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale
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