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Sexton Blake

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From the Smithsonian:

 

"More Than 30 Million Years Ago, Monkeys Rafted Across the Atlantic to South America. In a strange twist of evolutionary history, the ancestors of modern South American monkeys such as the capuchin and woolly monkeys first came to the New World by floating across the Atlantic Ocean on mats of vegetation and earth."

 

Creationists point this out as dumb, and I have to agree with them. Were it just a hundred miles, maybe, but thousands of miles? No. That is several months on such a mat which evolutionists will dismiss when it comes to the Flood and survivors.

 

So alternatives?

 

Earth was a super continent as little as 200 million years ago so life probably spread out to what would later be other continents.

 

Which is why South America had a good collection of dinosaurs long ago.

 

As dinosaurs were wiped out 66 million years ago by an asteroid impact, it was world wide so eventually allowing smaller animals and mammals to flourish. Mammals have been traced back to at least 178 million years ago.

 

There would have been some kind of parallel evolution where similar conditions bred similar new species as in similar dinosaurs, similar animals and even similar primates.

 

Also:

 

"Analogous interchanges occurred earlier in the Cenozoic, when the formerly isolated land masses of India and Africa made contact with Eurasia about 50 and 30 Ma ago, respectively."

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Interchange

 

Also there has been land bridges and ice bridges between Asia and North America numerous times, over so many millions of years allowing animals to flow both ways.

 

So, primates in South America? What is the big deal?

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4 hours ago, Sexton Blake said:

From the Smithsonian:

 

"More Than 30 Million Years Ago, Monkeys Rafted Across the Atlantic to South America. In a strange twist of evolutionary history, the ancestors of modern South American monkeys such as the capuchin and woolly monkeys first came to the New World by floating across the Atlantic Ocean on mats of vegetation and earth."

 

Creationists point this out as dumb, and I have to agree with them. Were it just a hundred miles, maybe, but thousands of miles? No. That is several months on such a mat which evolutionists will dismiss when it comes to the Flood and survivors.

 

So alternatives?

 

Earth was a super continent as little as 200 million years ago so life probably spread out to what would later be other continents.

 

Which is why South America had a good collection of dinosaurs long ago.

 

As dinosaurs were wiped out 66 million years ago by an asteroid impact, it was world wide so eventually allowing smaller animals and mammals to flourish. Mammals have been traced back to at least 178 million years ago.

 

There would have been some kind of parallel evolution where similar conditions bred similar new species as in similar dinosaurs, similar animals and even similar primates.

 

Also:

 

"Analogous interchanges occurred earlier in the Cenozoic, when the formerly isolated land masses of India and Africa made contact with Eurasia about 50 and 30 Ma ago, respectively."

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Interchange

 

Also there has been land bridges and ice bridges between Asia and North America numerous times, over so many millions of years allowing animals to flow both ways.

 

So, primates in South America? What is the big deal?

 

Yes, this is very interesting. Primate archaeology starts in Africa and passed to South America.  The mainstream belief is that it happened based upon Island rafting across the Atlantic ocean when the continents were about half as far apart. 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/monkeys-raft-across-atlantic-twice-180974637/

Near west Africa about 30 million years ago near the equator, there ware mangrove swamps as there are today in Florida USA and in the Amazon of Brazil. Some of these involve floating islands easily uprooted by big storms.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/coverage/floating-islands-of-the-world-8051

The largest separate floating islands  today are known to be about 50 miles square today, but in ancient  times, without man, they may have been much larger. Banana trees and mangrove swamps, small fruit trees, surrounded by free floating sea weed. Horizontal floating wood and tree logs and branches covered with grasses and reeds tolerable to salt water. Monkeys could have lived on these islands for many generations somewhat protected from predators, but eventually swept across the sea by storm in a year or more, to the east cost of south America, such as the jungles of Brazil, a perfect landing place and similar habitat. 

Woolly Mammoths were a very different story. Their elephant like ancestors evolved in Africa, developed their larger size and woolly coat in Russia and Siberia's colder climates, then crossed the Bearing straight during the many ice ages into the Americas when it was frozen over,

Yeah, your quote:

"Also there has been land bridges and ice bridges between Asia and North America numerous times, over so many millions of years allowing animals to flow both ways.

 

So, primates in South America? What is the big deal?'"

 

Yeah, God did it doesn't fit :)

 

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