Fruit of the Spirit

For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth...Eph 5:9

Winter 2006                                                            Volume 7, Issue 1

The Fossil Record

The Fossil Record      Studies in Christian Evidences

Rheobatrachus Silus ~ Still Here

In nearly all books, TV shows, articles, and college classes where evolution is taught, the careful student will notice many assumptions are necessary for any major evolution to occur. The one presenting the information apparently feels no obligation to actually explain how one thing (rock, invertebrate, reptile, etc.) has actually, step-by-step, turned into something “higher” on the evolutionary scale.

A recent example of this was a televised lecture on genome evolution from Washington University. The professor related that certain events had occurred, then paused and stated that when it came to man, something unexplainable must have occurred to bring about the differences he observed. He then just continued his lecture as though that is all he had to say to “prove” the argument he was presenting.

There are so many “unexplainable” (by the theory of evolution) exceptional occurrences in nature one would think scientists would forsake a theory with so many exceptions and embrace a more logical explanation for them.

Just one of thousands of examples that could be noted is the “unexplainable” way the Australian frog has survived, given some unique circumstances concerning the birth of her young. The female Rheobatrachus silus frog lays her eggs, like many other frogs do. The male frog comes along and fertilizes them like many other frogs do. Then the most amazing thing happens. The female eats the eggs. Well, that should be the end of Rheobatrachus silus, shouldn’t it? By pure evolutionary standards it could not survive. But it does.

When she eats her eggs, as soon as the eggs go into her stomach, even if she has food in it that is being digested, that digestion shuts down. By being inside of her the eggs are protected from the other normal forms of destruction—like being eaten by fish, etc. Of course it is possible she might serve as a meal for something herself.

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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Page 5 - Hock the Horses... | Page 6 - Refusing to Understand
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