The alleged evolution of reptiles from amphibians has never been satisfactorily explained.
Amphibians didn’t evolve into reptiles
The alleged evolution of
reptiles from amphibians is difficult for the theory of evolution
to explain. For a water-loving amphibian to change into a
land-dwelling reptile, at least two major life-affecting changes
would be needed.
The first has to do with skin. An amphibian's skin lacks protective devices to stop it from drying out. This forces it to live in water or very humid places. Some amphibians have a type of thin scale in their skin, but this offers no protection against drying out. Reptiles have a different type of scale altogether, made of keratin, or horn. It lies in the outer layer of their skin and is tough enough to prevent desiccation.
There is no convincing evidence from either biology or fossils that such a transformation took place.
Egg problem!
The second major barrier to an amphibian's turning into a reptile has to do with eggs.
An amphibian, hatching from an aquatic egg, develops in water in the larval form known as a tadpole. Reptiles, however, are born with all the functioning structures of an adult. This applies even to marine reptiles. They do not develop gills, or the series of sense organs needed by a tadpole, which must be resorbed and reworked into other structures as it turns into an adult.
How such remarkable evolutionary changes supposedly took place has never been satisfactorily demonstrated. The fact is, we don't believe that reptiles did, or could, evolve from amphibians. The Bible's explanation — that God created them — has never been disproved.
As fast as a turtle
The San Diego-based conservation group Wildcoast had been tracking a large 50-year-old East Pacific green turtle since December 2000. A transmitter attached to the turtle allowed thousands of schoolchildren on the internet to follow the turtle's journey as it swam from its nesting site in southern Mexico to feeding grounds in Baja California.
But in March 2001, signals from the turtle suddenly stopped. Wildcoast biologist Wallace Nichols started inquiring around the coastal lagoon where the last signals came from. Poachers told him they knew what had happened to the turtle: locals had eaten it at a large village barbecue!
(New Scientist, 11 August 2001, p. 17)
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