The Pine Barrens Tree Frog and the Flood.

[Tcg]

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The Pine Barrens tree frog is well known in southern New Jersey and a few southeastern states.



This frog is tiny at about 1 - 1 1/2 inches long. If there were a global flood that killed all land animals except the few that were in Noah's ark, an ark that came aground in what is now called Turkey, how did this tiny frog find it's way to southern New Jersey?


Tcg

[Difflugia]

This frog is tiny at about 1 - 1 1/2 inches long. If there were a global flood that killed all land animals except the few that were in Noah's ark, an ark that came aground in what is now called Turkey, how did this tiny frog find it's way to southern New Jersey?

A pair of them rode on the back of a sea turtle that Jesus miraculously prevented from submerging.

[Tcg]

This frog is tiny at about 1 - 1 1/2 inches long. If there were a global flood that killed all land animals except the few that were in Noah's ark, an ark that came aground in what is now called Turkey, how did this tiny frog find it's way to southern New Jersey?

A pair of them rode on the back of a sea turtle that Jesus miraculously prevented from submerging.

I've heard some present quite seriously that animal life may have spread by riding on logs. I'm not sure what the average speed of a floating log is, but that'd result a rather long trip to survive absent food and fresh water. Of course if we rely on God-magic of some sort, details such as food and water matters little.


Tcg

[Purple Knight]

Frogs are a bad choice to prove religious people wrong.

>> They die and then rise from the dead.

>> They rain down from the heavens as mana. (This one ostensibly answers the OP.)

>> Just about anything kills them, even eachother, even their food, to the point that it makes one wonder how evolution produced something so weak. One fungus extincted over 90 species.

>> They can walk on water.

[Tcg]

Frogs are a bad choice to prove religious people wrong.

>> They die and then rise from the dead.

>> They rain down from the heavens as mana. (This one ostensibly answers the OP.)

>> Just about anything kills them, even eachother, even their food, to the point that it makes one wonder how evolution produced something so weak. One fungus extincted over 90 species.

>> They can walk on water.

If the Pine Barrens tree frog spread due to rain, the rain would have had to fall in very specific environments where they live. Of course I guess it could be asserted that they rained down all over the U.S. and only survived in the environment they needed.


Tcg

[Purple Knight]

If the Pine Barrens tree frog spread due to rain, the rain would have had to fall in very specific environments where they live. Of course I guess it could be asserted that they rained down all over the U.S. and only survived in the environment they needed.

Or they could have spread due to rain, and quickly because hyperspecialised, virtually instantly dumping any and all adaptations to survive outside of exactly the conditions they're in, a process which frogs seem to be very, very good at. This is why they're so weak, and I do realise I'm answering my own joke here and making the Joker sad.

[Miles]

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The Pine Barrens tree frog is well known in southern New Jersey and a few southeastern states.



This frog is tiny at about 1 - 1 1/2 inches long. If there were a global flood that killed all land animals except the few that were in Noah's ark, an ark that came aground in what is now called Turkey, how did this tiny frog find it's way to southern New Jersey?

They were toad across the sea.


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[TRANSPONDER]

Out of the various explanations for the continent based - diversity of species, once we've stopped laughing at a hypothesis of Koalas being huffed by volcanoes from Turkey to Australia, is that Noah, who had been told which animals were going to be particular to which continent, herded then to their appointed parts of Pangaea and told them to hang on tight. The island -land -mass then split us according to heavenly decree and the various bits aquaplaned to their appointed locations. And as to why we have only Marsupials native to Australia but monkeys in the old and New worlds...God knows best.

[JehovahsWitness]

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The Pine Barrens tree frog is well known in southern New Jersey and a few southeastern states.



This frog is tiny at about 1 - 1 1/2 inches long. If there were a global flood that killed all land animals except the few that were in Noah's ark, an ark that came aground in what is now called Turkey, how did this tiny frog find it's way to southern New Jersey?

Interesting creatures; apparently tree frogs are found on every continent except Antarctica. Here is an extract I found on them:

Evolution and systematics
The earliest fossil Hylidae are from the Paleocene of Brazil; elsewhere, fossil hylids are known from as early as the Miocene in Australia, the Oligocene in North America, the Miocene in Europe, and the Pleistocene in Japan. The meager fossil data are consistent with a Gondwanan origin of the family, presumably in South America after its separation from Africa. Independent dispersals from South America were to Australia via Antarctica and to North America and subsequently to Eurasia.

Source: https://www.encyclopedia.com/environmen ... gs-hylidae

Scientists think the ancestors of modern frogs all laid their eggs in water. Maybe the red-eyed tree frog itself could have evolved its leaf-laying habits as a result of phenotypic plasticity. Maybe an ancestor dabbled in laying its eggs out of the water, only on really wet days, to get away from aquatic predators—a plastic way of dealing with a dangerous environment—and that trait got passed on to its descendants, which eventually lost the ability to lay eggs in water at all.

Nobody knows if that’s how it happened. “That was a very long time ago and no longer amenable to those kinds of experiments,” Warkentin says.

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science- ... 165716397/

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[Charles1991]

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