The Platypus is a small creature unique to Australia. There is not another like it on God's green earth. It lives in freshwater streams and billabongs all over Australia. It seems to be an odd mixture of a reptile, bird, and animal. It is the sort of weird creature that you might think was created by a committee. Although it lives in water, it breathes air. It has webbed feet with which it swims, much like a duck. These webbed feet have claws. Its body is covered with loose fur. It has a quaint duck like bill as well.
These outward features are not as odd as the inward ones. Its heart is that of a real animal, but its reproduction organs are practically the same as a reptile. It reproduces by laying eggs that very much resemble lizard eggs. During hatching the mother broods much like a hen. When her eggs are hatched, she feeds her young by milk, as mammals do, but she has no teats. The babies get their milk by sucking it through the pores of the mother's skin.
This small animal has confounded evolutionists since its discovery by Sir Joseph Banks, who came to Australia with Captain Cook on his voyage of discovery. It contradicts nearly every tenant of the theory of progressive evolution as imagined and proposed by those who deny God spoke this universe into existence. Who knows? One might easily imagine our great Creator God laughing at their confusion! (See Proverbs 1:18:23) - Pastor John G White
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