But if she doesn’t, here is what occurs next.
The eggs continue to develop inside her stomach until they become baby frogs, and as they get bigger another amazing thing happens—their size causes her lungs to collapse. Well that should be the end of Rheobatrachus silus, shouldn’t it? How will she breathe? By pure evolutionary standards, she could not survive. But she does.
When the lungs collapse she begins to breathe through her skin, and she continues to do so until the frogs are developed enough to come out of her mouth and live independently on their own. Within two weeks, the food in her stomach starts being digested and everything goes on as normal.
Now truly, honestly, what part of evolution can explain logically and scientifically all of those events? Any one of the events in that process would have eliminated the species, and it would have been no more. Nor could any one of those things slowly evolved over thousands (or millions) of years since any one of the events would have killed either the offspring or the mother, and they would have been no more. But we have Rheobatrachus silus.
This kind of logical example argues well for design. And we know that “Design Demands A Designer.”
So, there is one logical answer that fits all known facts: God designed her and the whole process to work that way—-perfectly.
Warren Wilcox
(Bear Valley Bible Institute, Denver, CO)
Further info: Tyler, M.J. & D.B. Carter (1982) Oral birth of the young of the gastric-brooding frog Rheobatrachus silus in Animal Behaviour 29: (pgs. 280-282)
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