Tuataras, the New Zealand reptiles, are evidence against the theory of evolution.
Tuataras … reptiles that haven’t evolved
There are many unusual features about the reptile called a tuatara (pronounced too-uh-TAR-uh). It looks like a lizard, but it croaks like a frog. It can go for an hour without taking a breath, and it is commonly said to live up to 300 years.
There was great excitement in January 2009 when the world's news media reported that a 111-year-old tuatara named Henry fathered 11 newly hatched tuataras at New Zealand's Southland Museum and Art Gallery at Invercargill.
Tuataras are found on only a few rocky offshore islands of New Zealand. They can withstand temperatures as low as 7 degrees Celsius (45 degrees F) — the lowest temperature recorded by any reptile. In these cold conditions though, the tuatara's movements become so slow it has been known to fall asleep in the middle of munching insects.
Tuataras can reach a length of 60 centimeters (two feet), and often share their burrow with a bird — the petrel. When the female tuatara lays her eggs, they receive no attention from the parents, and can take 15 months to hatch. This is the longest incubation period known for a reptile.
Slow maturity
Growth rate is also
slow. The tuatara doesn't reach maturity until it is 20 years old,
and it continues to grow until it is 50.
But the tuatara is best known to scientists for an even more amazing reason. It definitely has not evolved! Fossils of a creature virtually identical to the tuatara have been found in rocks that evolutionary geologists date at 200 million years old.
While evolutionists believe mutations and natural selection have occurred to the degree required to bring about all the living things we see today from a first microscopic form of life — and the alleged ape-to-human transition supposedly took only a few million years — the tuatara is excellent evidence against this. Its total lack of change is good evidence that it was created, for the tuatara has simply reproduced “after its kind” — as the Book of Genesis in the Bible says creatures would.
Picture credits: (top) Tuatara painting courtesy
and copyright Steve Cardno.
Lower photo by Smokey Ging.
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