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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: Isolation and Unique Species
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 11:22:36 EDT
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> >     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
> 
Dan Boskovitch writes:
>   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. 

    I see.  And all of the species which are found in isolated habitats and
nowhere else just got off the ark, traveled halfway around the world or so,
directly to their isolated habitats (building boats if need be), leaving no
offspring anywhere else, and established themselves where they were supposed
to be.  Sounds real likely to me.
    Since you've admitted to being a believer in the flood, I can't resist
asking again:  where did all of the water come from?  Where did it go?  A
second and third act of special creation?
-- 
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