Many people have experienced the awful feeling of jet lag that results from crossing international time zones. Some of its symptoms include disorientation, grogginess and irrational thinking. Now groups supporting teaching Creationism and Intelligent Design in public schools may have an answer to the troubling question of why so many of the Intelligent Designer’s designs have obvious flaws and useless features?

The obvious implication of a new scientific breakthrough is that the Intelligent Designer may have been confused by time travel when designing the first duck-billed platypus. An article published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on May 8, 2008 reports that a team of scientists have now determined the entire genetic code of the “wacky” platypus.

They surprisingly found long sequences of reptile, mammal, and bird genes. This finding proves the Intelligent Designer was, or is, a time traveler because scientists long ago proved gene sequences for each of these separate organisms originated millions of years apart.

On second thought, this finding presents a problem for Creationists and Designers since they usually argue each life form was engineered for a special purpose and at essentially the same time. They even have “museums” to prove it!

I would venture to guess we will not see any duck-billed platypus specimens in their museum but—as they have shown before—anything is possible.

Read Settled Science to learn how the evolutionary process over a long period of time produced such a remarkable living thing from pre-existing ones.

Source

Journal Nature by Richard Wilson, Washington University in St. Louis, May 7, 2008

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