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The Creation Answers Book

The Creation Answers Book

Lessons & Chapters

Lesson 1 Does God exist? (Chapter 1)

Lesson 2: Six days? Really? (Chapter 2)

Lesson 3 What about gap theories? (Chapter 3)

Lesson 4 What about carbon dating? (Chapter 4)

Lesson 5 How can we see distant stars in a young universe? (Chapter 5)

Lesson 6 How did bad things come about? (Chapter 6)

Lesson 7 What about arguments for evolution? (Chapter 7)

Lesson 8 Who was Cain’s wife? (Chapter 8)

Lesson 9 Were the ‘sons of God’ and/or the Nephilim extraterrestrials? (Chapter 9)

Lesson 10 Was the Flood global? (Chapter 10)

Lesson 11 What about continental drift? (Chapter 11)

Lesson 12 Noah’s Flood-what about all that water? (Chapter 12)

Lessons 13 & 14 How did all the animals fit on Noah’s Ark? and How did freshwater and saltwater fish survive the Flood? (Chapters 13 & 14)

Lesson 15 Where are all the human fossils? (Chapter 15)

Lesson 16 What about ice ages? (Chapter 16)

Lesson 17 How did animals get to Australia? (Chapter 17)

Lesson 18 How did all the different ‘races’ arise (from Noah’s family)? (Chapter 18)

Lesson 19 What about dinosaurs? (Chapter 19)

The Creation Answers Book Study Guide

by Dr Don Batten, Dr David Catchpoole, Dr Jonathan Sarfati, and Dr Carl Wieland

Lesson 17: How did animals get from the Ark to places such as Australia?

Text: The Creation Answers Book, chapter 17

Discussion questions

  1. According to the Bible, how did all the animals get to the Ark?

  2. How did the Ice Age affect post-Flood animal and human distribution over the earth?

  3. What is a monotreme? What is a marsupial? What is a placental mammal?

  4. What is significant about the discovery of marsupial and monotreme fossils in places other than Australia?

  5. How could the animals have travelled from the Ark to such faraway places as Australia or the Americas?

  6. Why do we not find fossils of kangaroos along the way from the Ark to Australia?

  7. Explain why the Livingstonia mariae palm is found only in central Australia today.

  8. Based on the information in this chapter, list some ideas for research projects that could be done to further our knowledge of this topic.