There was only one continent before the flood. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/e/eastern-gray-kangaroo/?user.testname=none, www2.usgs.gov/climate_landuse/glaciers/glaciers_sea_level.asp, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Sunda_and_Sahul_2.png, https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/australia-moves-gps-coordinates-adjusted-continental-drift/?user.testname=none, www.newsweek.com/humans-arrived-australia-thousands-years-thought-638914, https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/australia-aboriginal-early-human-evolution-spd/?user.testname=none, https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/migration-to-australia/, www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/09/indigenous-australian-stories-reveal-sea-level-rise-7000-years-ago, www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-sea-rise-tale-told-accurately-for-10-000-years/. The Kangaroos live in areas that are very dry and often very little really grows in them. what happened in the past. If you could conceive of a potential land mass you might have something but the kangaroo would have adapted from some ancestor that migrated there and that would have been about 10,000 years ago. During the ice age huge quantities of water were trapped in the ice sheets lowering ocean levels and exposing significant land bridges. Finally, there is another perfectly reasonable explanation for kangaroos being isolated to Australia. Kangaroos live in a great variety of areas in Australia. biblical model I believe there are two very plausible, logical explanations. Answer: Kangaroos did not need to travel continents to get to the ark. Kangaroos are marsupials (animals with pouches). et al., Humans at the End of the Ice Age, Plenum Press, New York, London, 1996, p. 175; [v] S. Oppenheimer, Eden in the East, The Drowned Continent of Southeast. Australian Kangaroos are herbivores which means they only eat plants and some eat mushrooms or funghi. Image caption: “During the last Ice Age (above) sea level was at least 394 feet (120 m) lower than it is today (below), exposing much more area on the continents.”. The answer really is very Map showing Lowered Sea Levels During the Ice Age and Possible Travel Route for Kangaroos.[ii]. In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, and western grey kangaroo. [iv] However, Sahul was probably not completely connected to the Sunda region of Southeastern Asia. This is a huge adaptation that they have been able to make. and they migrated over on land bridges. Australia and Indonesia During the Ice Age.[vi]. [xii], Secular scientists do not agree about how or when humans traveled to Australia. would have turned much of the water into ice and thus lowering the sea level The kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae. perhaps kangaroos did live elsewhere in the world but, because of their [xv] Emily DeMarco, “Indigenous Australian stories reveal sea level rise from 7000 years ago,” (September 16, 2015),  www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/09/indigenous-australian-stories-reveal-sea-level-rise-7000-years-ago (October 24, 2018); John Upton, “Ancient Sea Rise Tale Told Accurately for 10,000 Years: Aboriginal stories of lost islands match up with underwater finds in Australia,” Climate Central (January 26, 2015): Scientificamerican.com: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-sea-rise-tale-told-accurately-for-10-000-years/ (October 24, 2018). Like most people who have been indoctrinated by the secular media, your answer to this question will probably be: "No, of course not! (a century perhaps), a connection between Australia and Southeast Asia. [vi] Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Sunda_and_Sahul_2.png. [x] Thanks to Dr. Andrew Snelling of Answers in Genesis for contributions to this section. The diversity in Australia is pretty inique, most of the marsupials in the world exist there. "How did kangaroos get to Australia from the Ark?" Australia. After Noah’s Ark I believe people got a great idea: boats. 30). Kangaroos are only found in Australia today, so the question of how did kangaroos get to Australia is a common one, not only for creationists but also for evolutionists. 1-844-7-GENESIS (844-743-6374) staff@genesisapologetics.com. How did kangaroos get to Australia: Amazing Answers: 12/25/16 6:40 PM: Atheists believe it's a problem for Christians to solve, yet, atheists forget that it's their problem, too. 106–107 and their Ref. were very commonly used in trade in ancient times. [xii] Image Credit: Wikipedia: “Rhino – Big Game Hunt mosaic – Villa Romana del Casale – Italy 2015.”, [xiii] Osborne, Hannah, “First Humans in Australia Arrived Thousands of Years Earlier than we Thought,” (July 19, 2017), Newsweek.com: www.newsweek.com/humans-arrived-australia-thousands-years-thought-638914 (Accessed October 24, 2018); See also: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/australia-aboriginal-early-human-evolution-spd/?user.testname=none, [xiv] Genographic Project (Migration to Australia). Question from a reader: "Either the animals crossed oceans to get to the arc [sic] or they crossed oceans to get to the present location. [viii] A.C. McIntosh, T. Edmondson, & S. Taylor, “Genesis and Catastrophe: the Flood as the Major Biblical Cataclysm,” TJ 14(1) (2000):101–109 (see pp. The second possibility is that they floated across the Indian Ocean from Africa on a vegetation raft. This … [i] National Geographic, “Animal Photo Ark: Eastern Gray Kangaroo,” Nationalgeographic.com:  (www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/e/eastern-gray-kangaroo/?user.testname=none) (October, 2018). consider the fact that the western plains of the United States were once full We know this is how most domesticated animals (e.g., dogs) got to Australia, and this type of animal introduction has happened throughout history. 8/9/01 . 1-844-7-GENESIS (844-743-6374) | staff@genesisapologetics.com. inability to stand against predators, they became extinct everywhere but None of the boats used by Aboriginal people in ancient times are suitable for major voyages, and some have suggested early humans reached the continent on rafts made of bamboo, a material common in Asia.” From a Biblical perspective, however, people were “smart from the start.” They had the same aptitudes for building seafaring vessels that Noah had. Australia began separating from Gondwana in the mid-Jurassic Period, 167 million years ago. If you want to know how kangaroos got to their current location, they got over ice bridges or lowered sea levels made walking across easier. Figure 2. We must not fall lack of fossils is certainly understandable when we consider how rare it is In fact, this is how pigs, soybeans, kiwi fruit, wheat, honey bees, and all livestock except the American bison and the turkey got to North America. of buffalo but we never find buffalo fossils there. No, not in one Kangaroos probably Featured After the flood: How did kangaroos get to Australia? This leaves three viable possibilities for kangaroos getting to Australia. In fact, fossilization is by no means inevitable. Asia (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1998): 147–148 (see Ref. Kangaroos can travel about 15 miles-per-hour over long distances. simple: we don’t know because we weren’t there. Also, Figure 1. How did the animals get to the Ark? These mechanisms were not likely widespread areas across Indonesia after the Flood. Its tail adds another 35.5 to 43.5 inches (90 to 110 centimeters) to its length and its entire body weighs around 200 lbs. Did Kangaroos once live in the Middle East? [xvi] Consider that there used to be lions in Israel (based on historical records) and millions of bison in America. Nationalgeographic.com: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/australia-moves-gps-coordinates-adjusted-continental-drift/?user.testname=none (Accessed October 24, 2018). We know that all things were created in or near the Garden of Eden and migrated from there throughout the world. The third possibility is that humans took kangaroos (and likely other animals) with them when they traveled to Australia by sea. Figure 3. The first possibility is that Sunda and Sahul were closer together during the Glacial Maximum stage of the Ice Age when the sea levels were lower. “In the centuries following European exploration and colonization of the eastern U.S., free-range livestock management practices and escapes from enclosures resulted in the establishment of wild pig populations and promoted their spread,” David Pimentel, Lori Lach, Rodolfo Zuniga, and Doug Morrison, “Environmental and Economic Costs Associated with Non-Indigenous Species in the United States,” College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University (Ithaca, New York), June 12, 1999. The diversity in Australia is pretty inique, most of the marsupials in the world exist there. Lastly, let’s address the alleged challenge of the absence of a “kangaroo fossil trail” from where the Ark landed to Australia. We know this is how most domesticated animals (e.g., dogs) got to Australia, and this type of animal introduction has happened throughout history. people took them there in boats. Animals were very commonly used in trade in ancient times. After Noah’s Ark I believe people got a great idea: boats. If you could conceive of a potential land mass you might have something but the kangaroo would have adapted from some ancestor that migrated there and that would have been about 10,000 years ago. Where are all the fossils? The largest kangaroo, as well as the largest marsupial, is the red kangaroo, according to National Geographic. This period has been variously estimated, with most evidence suggesting that it goes back between 50,000 and 65,000 years. This is not a legitimate challenge for two reasons. In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, and western grey kangaroo. an isolated area. Fossilization needs rapid burial and lots of sediment like Noah’s Flood provided. At the time all continents were part of the super continent known as Gondwanaland. The point is, we don’t know why kangaroos ended up First, remove the back. Kangaroos are made for traveling long distances. I think a very logical explanation for kangaroos in Australia is that Such an expectation is predicated on the assumption that fossils form gradually and inevitably from animal populations. Kangaroos are indigenous to Australia and New Guinea.The Australian government estimates that 34.3 million kangaroos … Noah’s Flood. is a very reasonable and probable explanation but in order to understand it we Even though the sea levels during the Glacial Maximum were 100+ meters lower than current levels (with some estimates even much lower[iii]), some deeper channel areas would have prevented crossing on dry land. How did they get isolated to those locations? Either way the feat is impossible by most land animals." Kangaroos evolved in Australia, as evidenced by the lack of kangaroos or kangaroo-like creatures in other parts of the world. Previously, I presented the case for an ice age occurring after [xi] Humans have been documented transporting animals into various locations (including islands) for thousands of years. Ask yourself these questions: The Living Australia, Issue 10 (Sydney: Bay Books Pty Ltd, 1985). Kangaroos did not have to hop all the way from Australia to get on the ark. Kangaroos are large marsupials that are found only in Australia. evolved from there. must understand the effects of the ice age and plate tectonics. However, We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit company (tax-exempt status approved), so your contributions to our ministry are welcome! 8/9/01 . Bible Study Question: How did the Kangaroos get back to Australia from Mt Ararat in Asia Minor? The division between kangaroos and wallabies is arbitrary: roos are simply the larger animals in the Macropus genus, and include the Red Kangaroo, Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Western Grey Kangaroo, Antilopine Kangaroo, Common Wallaroo (or Euro) and the Black Wallaroo. I think a very logical explanation for kangaroos in Australia is that people took them there in boats. It is believed that they once were more involved in living in grazing locations with lots of grass out there for them to consume. [xi] Pigs were first introduced in the 1500’s by Spanish Explorer, Hernando DeSoto. Kangaroos live only in Australia." Favourite answer Australia began separating from Gondwana in the mid-Jurassic Period, 167 million years ago. [iii] Australian Institute of Marine Science, “Big Bank Shoals of the Timor Sea: An environmental resource atlas.” (2001): www2.usgs.gov/climate_landuse/glaciers/glaciers_sea_level.asp (November 5, 2018); K. Lambeck, Y. Yokoyama, & A. Purcell, “Into and out of the Last Glacial Maximum: sea-level change during Oxygen Isotope Stages 3 and 2,” Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. If this seems too far-fetched, consider that evolutionists also rely on similar possibilities[ix] for explaining how animals got to Madagascar from Africa by the same mechanism, that is, by floating on vegetation rafts.[x]. It is likely that the journey was planned because enough men and women arrived to found a new population there.” They continue, “Another mystery is what kind of water vessels early humans used to reach Australia. traded away for them? However, given the unknown terrain and because it’s unlikely they traveled straight to Australia after exiting the Ark, it probably took them several years and multiple generations (same with humans after Babel). 13). Discussion in 'General Theology' started by Bible Highlighter, Aug 30, 2018. After all, the two regions also have different fauna and flora. To answer the question ‘How did the kangaroo get to Australia?’ see the chapter on this topic in The Answers Book (Australia: Answers in Genesis, 1999). About a dozen basic marsupial kinds live across Australia and New Guinea, with a handful in South America. Article   Consequently, most of the kangaroos became natives of Australia. understanding. The marsupial ancestors of kangaroos were carried along with the new continent of Australia as it drifted south. However, with the Another consideration is that How did kangaroos get to Australia Showing 1-58 of 58 messages. The Living Australia, Issue 10 (Sydney: Bay Books Pty Ltd, 1985). However, 180 million years ago, the continents split away occupying their present locations. Kangaroos, the national symbol of Australia, have outpaced the population of Australian residents 2 to 1. Either way the feat is impossible by most land animals." worries, mate, there’s an easy enough answer to your question. Kangaroos did not have to hop all the way from Australia to get on the ark. For example, consider the 4th Century mosaic in Figure 3 showing the transportation of non-native species in Italy (for hunting purposes). It is hard to get an exact number, but estimates suggest their population is around double with around 50 million kangaroos. A 2002 report prepared for the Australian government by RSCPA Australia, an animal-welfare organization, found that 95.9 percent of kangaroos examined had been shot in … This era is referred as … Bible Study Question: How did the Kangaroos get back to Australia from Mt Ararat in Asia Minor? The point is, we don’t know why kangaroos ended up Marsupials include familiar-looking kangaroos and koalas, plus lesser-known bettongs and marsupial moles. (Sorry, I guess I’ve been watching too much of the Olympics.). Finally, there is another [ii] Image credit: National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) at NOAA. One such bridge would have extended from southeast Asia to northern Australia and provided a thoroughfare for kangaroos to … Kangaroos are the world’s largest marsupials and can weigh 90kg and grow 2 metres tall. There are a few possibilities: Nationalgeographic: https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/migration-to-australia/. Kangaroos are only found in Australia today, so the question of how did kangaroos get to Australia is a common one, not only for creationists but also for evolutionists. Animals the effects of plate tectonics could have formed these land bridges. Equipping youth pastors, parents, and students with Biblical answers for evolutionary teaching in public schools. Rather, the land was dry Ironically, there is growing academic support for the validity of the oral history of the Aborigines regarding traveling across land bridges that are now currently covered with water.[xv]. This question covers a more broad question of how the animals spread all over the earth from Noah’s Ark in the mountains of Ararat. Copyright © 2014 Genesis Apologetics, Inc. All rights reserved. there are a number of marsupials in Australia (koalas, wombats, wallabies,etc.) Next there’s the challenge of crossing the southern-most part of what’s currently Indonesia (Sunda) to Northern Australia (Sahul) (see Figure 2). Originally published in the Rockdale/Newton Citizen. explanation we might have must take into consideration of our limited Looking at Figure 2, New Guinea, Australia, and Tasmania were in fact connected during the Ice Age (as a giant island known as Sahul). could the kangaroo get from the ark to such an isolated place like Australia? [viii] However, it is still possible that there could have been shifts in the ocean floor’s elevations between the Indonesian islands and Australia due to earth movements, so the land bridge connection could have been more complete than otherwise portrayed. It is only 6 t… They One accusation thrown at biblical creationists is that kangaroos could not have hopped to Australia, because there are no fossils of kangaroos on the way. New Zealand is famous for having more sheep than the human population but did you know that kangaroos outnumber the human population in Australia. There are currents that move in the right direction right across the Indian Ocean. [xvi] Some areas, however, were subject to major Ice Age related flooding. Why are the kangaroos in Australia, and only in Australia? The Australian government estimates that 34.3 million kangaroos lived within the commercial harvest areas of Australia in 2011, up from 25.1 million one year earlier. The same way The native aboriginals came to Australia over land from Asia before the end of the last ice age 12,500 to 7,600 years ago the sea was an estimated 200ft lower than current sea levels so Queensland actual shore line was the outer edge of the Great barrier reef, so kangaroo island would of been apart of the main land. Villa Romana del Casale: Big Game Hunt Mosaic (Rhino) (Italy, early 4th century AD). Question from a reader: "Either the animals crossed oceans to get to the arc [sic] or they crossed oceans to get to the present location. would have migrated in a southeastern direction until they finally survived in Let us think about this a little more deeply using a proper Biblical perspective. The kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). Therefore, the original home of the kangaroos was South America. Thus, they would have been forced by way of then-existent land bridges Skeptics paint a picture of Noah going to countries remote from the Middle East to gather animals such as How did kangaroos get to Australia? In other words, they first migrated down to Africa, then when a river basin flooded some kangaroos got stranded on massive vegetation mats and got washed out into the Indian Ocean where the currents carried them across to Australia. Kangaroos are indigenous to Australia and New Guinea. To get the kangaroos—and humans for that matter—from where the Ark landed (the mountains of Ararat, Genesis 8:4) to Australia (a present island), two things need to happen: (1) they need to travel over 7,000 miles, and (2) they need to cross an area that is currently under water. arrived in a friendly environment. How Return to text. However, the Bible states that the animals came to Noah; he did … [vii] Brian C. Howard, “Australia Is Drifting So Fast GPS Can’t Keep Up: A significant correction must be made by the end of the year for navigation technology to keep working smoothly.” (September 23, 2016). Return to text. How did the animals get to the Ark? with what we do know--that the Word of God is always right. Good luck with that. While the “by sea” theory has become widely supported in the secular literature,[xiii] this theory contradicts the secular worldview because scientists are troubled by the fact that Aborigines traveled so far by sea before such seafaring technology “developed.” The National Geographic’s Genographic Project[xiv] states, “About 50,000 years ago, a small band of humans landed in northern Australia, arriving on a primitive boat or raft. “This is really good evidence that the origins of grasslands in Australia had a profound effect, and was the primary driver of the radiation of true kangaroos,” said Dr Couzens. 21 (2002): 343–360. Aug 31, 2018 migrated slowly and only spent a few generations in one place before they [i] Assuming they traveled at only one-half of this pace (7–8 miles-per-hour) and only traveled for 8–10 hours per day, they could migrate from the Middle East to Australia in just four months. This The length from the red kangaroo's head to its rump is 3.25 to 5.25 feet (1 to 1.6 meters) long. However, there are huge differences between the natural habitat of the red kangaroo, the western grey kangaroo, the eastern grey kangaroo, and the antilopine kangaroo. Australia is the kingdom of marsupials, home to furry kangaroos, koalas and wombats. With the present location of the land masses, this is unlikely because lower sea levels alone would still leave some sections uncrossable. Fun fact: Kangaroos can actually swim. there are perfectly good, logical, plausible explanations that fit in easily How Did Kangaroos Get to Australia? (90 kilograms).The smallest kangaroo is the musky rat-kangaroo. Perhaps someone living in Australia had a hankering for marsupials and No October 27, 2014 Answers to Questions admin. A pair of researchers at Flinders University has found evidence that suggests modern kangaroos diversified due to grassland expansion, not drying during the Miocene, as previous studies have shown. big hop! See C. Wieland, Stones and Bones, (Australia: Creation Science Foundation, 1994). The kangaroos have adapted well to their present habitat in … Return to text. We know this from the scriptures: Adam named all of the animals (Genesis 2:19). The prehistory of Australia is the period between the first human habitation of the Australian continent and the colonisation of Australia in 1788, which marks the start of consistent written documentation of Australia. See C. Wieland, Stones and Bones, (Australia: Creation Science Foundation, 1994). Evolutionists themselves believe they could have caused an immense Your guess is as good as anyone else’s! But the expectation of such fossilsis a presuppositional error. rising and falling of the sea floor creating, perhaps for only a short period It is evident they hopped jumped, that is what kangaroos do, what other way is there. As with the … How did the kangaroos get back to Australia after Noah docked in the Middle East following the great flood? Evolutionists insist that they evolved there, but certain fossils suggest a different answer. there either. The third possibility is that humans took kangaroos (and likely other animals) with them when they traveled to Australia by sea. Such an ice age The continent has so many marsupials, it raises the question: Did these pouch-bearing mammals arise Down Under? into the dishonesty of the evolutionists by claiming we know, beyond a doubt, Australia’s capital city has the country’s highest concentration of kangaroos. Otherwise the bones would decompose befor… The first possibility is that the lower sea levels during the Ice Age (Glacial Maximum) exposed a land bridge all the way from the southern parts of Indonesia to Northern Australia. because they say that all marsupials live in Australia, thus they must have perfectly reasonable explanation for kangaroos being isolated to Australia. The first explanation is: they not all marsupials are native to the “Land Down Under.”  The opossum, for instance, is a marsupial. Some object to this because (Claim #E241) Response. hopped over there. But is that really true? and allowing a dry land passage. there and neither do the evolutionists. The challenge with this theory is, while some continental spreading after the Flood is likely (e.g., Australia has shifted about five feet since 1994[vii]), moving these land masses close enough to create a land bridge when animals were living on both land masses is not likely, given the amount of energy involved in moving landmasses. Canberra. So how can creationists explain how kangaroos travelled from the Ararat region to Australia? there are no fossils along the route. They are identified by their muscular tails, strong back legs, large feet, short fur and long, pointed ears. Answer: Kangaroos did not need to travel continents to get to the ark. Surprisingly, one of the most frequently asked questions from skeptics goes something like this: “If the Ark landed on the Mountains of Ararat, how did kangaroos make it all the way to Australia (an island without present land bridges), a distance of about 7,000 miles?” Sometimes “without leaving any fossils” will be added to the question as an apparent “zinger.” While many skeptics believe this is the “unanswerable” question for biblical creationists, the answer highlights evidence that supports biblical creation (the Babel dispersion and the Ice Age that followed the Flood). Also, They can be found in wet rainforests, grazing at the beach, hoping in wide-open plains, and in the dry centre of Australia. It usually requires sudden, rapid burial. Where to See Kangaroos in Australia. [iv] See comments by: Jim Allen of La Trobe University, Australia and Peter Kershaw of Monash University, Australia; in: Straus, L.G. Even though [ix] Scientific American, January 1993, p. 90. So how can creationists explain how kangaroos travelled from the Ararat region to Australia? Firstly, we don’t all have Australian kangaroos running around our back yards but providing you get out of the city, you should be able to see a kangaroo as part of your visit to Australia. However, the Bible states that the animals came to Noah; he did not have to round them up (Gen. 6:20). Some also object to this Any Table of Contents    Next Article, ©Tom Carpenter Skeptics paint a picture of Noah going to countries remote from the Middle East to gather animals such as kangaroos and koalas from Australia, and kiwis from New Zealand. They do not survive well around predators. Return to text. [v] While much of the now submerged area between Sunda and Sahul would have been exposed and walkable during the Ice Age, sections that are separated by water channels are currently deeper than the lowest sea levels during the Glacial Maximum (see Figure 1). Of course, the cumulative technology for ship-building advances faster with non-nomadic people groups. Answering the first part is easy. there and neither do the evolutionists. Although most kangaroos have their habitat in Australia, the origin of kangaroos was in South America. There certainly aren’t many! Previous for a fossil to form. Skeptics paint a picture of Noah going to countries remote from the Middle East to gather animals such as kangaroos and koalas from Australia, and kiwis from New Zealand. How have marsupials, especially kangaroos and their predecessors, evolved over the years as Australia’s ecosystem changed? The To answer the question ‘How did the kangaroo get to Australia?’ see the chapter on this topic in The Answers Book (Australia: Answers in Genesis, 1999).

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