For Tough Questions, the Answer Is Creationism

The science news website PhysOrg recently had this article: The first duckbill dinosaur fossil from Africa hints at how dinosaurs once crossed oceans. They report on a paper published in Cretaceous Research titled The first duckbill dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Africa and the role of oceanic dispersal in dinosaur biogeography, and they tell us:

The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur [Ajnabia odysseus] have been discovered in Africa, suggesting dinosaurs crossed hundreds of kilometres of open water to get there. … Ajnabia was a member of the duckbill dinosaurs, diverse plant-eating dinosaurs that grew up to 15 meters long. But the new dinosaur was tiny compared to its kin — at just 3 meters long, it was as big as a pony.

Duckbills evolved in North America and eventually spread to South America, Asia, and Europe. Because Africa was an island continent in the Late Cretaceous, isolated by deep seaways, it seemed impossible for duckbills to get there.

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Because Africa was isolated by deep oceans at the time, duckbills must have crossed hundreds of kilometres of open water – rafting on debris, floating, or swimming — to colonise the continent. Duckbills were probably powerful swimmers — they had large tails and powerful legs, and are often found in river deposits and marine rocks, so they may have simply swum the distance.

You’re probably wondering what a creationist would make of this dinosaur discovery. Well, prepare to be enlightened. The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) — the fountainhead of young-earth creationist wisdom — has an article on this, titled Even Sherlock Holmes Can’t Explain African Dinosaurs.

It was written by Tim Clarey — that links to ICR’s bio info on him. We first wrote about Timmy in Meet ICR’s Creationist Geologist. Now he’s going to tell us how this fossil ended up in Africa. He says:

A new species of duck-billed dinosaur, Ajnabia odysseus, was recently unearthed in North Africa. This is the first hadrosaur-type dinosaur ever discovered on the continent of Africa, and it creates a conundrum for evolutionary scientists [Gasp!] because its location doesn’t fit their narrative.

Oh no — Darwinism is doomed! Timmy tells us:

Secular scientists [The hell-bound fools!] believe that the hadrosaur kind dispersed from Asia to Europe and then to Africa. But, the big question is how? According to uniformitarian scientists, Africa was an isolated island continent at the end of the Cretaceous, with deep oceans for hundreds of miles in every direction.

Timmy is enjoying himself. He continues:

Locked into uniformitarian thinking [No miracles allowed!], secular scientists have to resort to the near impossible, suggesting that these dinosaurs swam across hundreds of miles of open ocean and/or floated on rafts of debris for weeks or months. But did they forget the oceans are filled with salt water? How could any large land animal swim or float across the open sea without a fresh water source or significant food for weeks or longer? And why would a dinosaur swim out to sea or climb on a debris raft without land in sight?

Timmy then provides us with the only conceivable answer:

Genesis provides a much more reasonable solution. Evolutionary scientists deliberately forget that there was a global Flood. [Yes, the Flood!] Dinosaurs would have been buried swiftly in mud and sand as tsunami-like waves washed across the continents. Often, they were mixed with marine fossils and even buried in marine rocks. The continents also split and moved rapidly away from one another during the year-long catastrophe, preserving the fossils of duck-billed dinosaurs on separate continents, including Africa.

That’s obviously how it happened! Let’s read on:

No long-range swimming by hadrosaurs is necessary in this explanation. In fact, the fossils of these dinosaurs demonstrate that they couldn’t swim well enough to escape the rising floodwaters, let alone swim across hundreds of miles of open ocean. Even Sherlock was willing to follow the evidence where it leads. Those who are willing to do the same will see that true science confirms exactly what we read in Genesis. The Flood was the reason for these and nearly all fossils.

Ooooooooooooh! Timmy is so wise, and those secular scientists are so stupid! If you don’t agree, dear reader, you’ll be spending your eternity in the Lake of Fire!

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