Creation Moment 5/24/2025 - Audible Animals

"We are all familiar with vocalizations in the animal world. For example, dogs bark, birds sing, frogs croak, and whales send forth their own distinct sounds. 

Recently, a detailed investigation has been conducted to determine sounds made by animals previously thought to be mute.

A group of zoologists led by the University of Zurich declare that, “Their study includes evidence for 53 species of four major clades of land vertebrates – turtles, tuataras, caecilians and lungfishes – in the form of vocal recordings and contextual behavioral information accompanying sound production.”

The ScienceDaily article stated, “Many turtles, for example, which were thought to be mute are in fact showing broad and complex acoustic repertoires.”

We read repeatedly in Genesis 1 that God created creatures after their kind. As such, it wouldn’t be surprising to discover that many (and possibly all) have unique sound production. “Acoustic communication is not only widespread in land vertebrates like birds and mammals, but also in reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.”

Evolutionists deny the Biblical record of creation and must posit a naturalistic origin of complex acoustic communication in animals. “Our results now show that acoustic communication did not evolve multiple times in diverse clades, but has a common and ancient evolutionary origin,” concludes the study leader Marcelo Sánchez.

But not only did such communication not evolve multiple times, it

most certainly did not evolve from some ethereal, unknown creature in deep evolutionary time. As the late non-creationist Tom Bethell stated, “Common descent is a deduction from Darwin’s theory, but it has never been demonstrated.”

Dr. Casey Luskin stated in regard to this tenuous theory,

"The truth is that common ancestry is merely an assumption that governs interpretation of the data, not an undeniable conclusion. Whenever data contradicts expectations of common descent, evolutionists resort to a variety of ad hoc rationalizations to save common descent from being falsified."

The fossil record shows the sudden appearance of all the animal groups complete and fully formed without evidence of their evolution.

Scripture says that God created each type after his kind 10 times in [Genesis 1]. It seems that the writer of Scripture went out of his way to insist that animals and plants were created fully formed as particular kinds and did not get here by altering previous existing kinds, nor do they change into other basic kinds.
But for evolutionists, not only are animals’ origins unknown, but that of their acoustic communication is equally unknown.

Writing in Nature Communications, Jorgewich-Cohen et al. state,

“We suggest a single origin of acoustic communication in the last common ancestor of all Choanata [the Tetrapodomorpha—a clade of vertebrates] over 400 million years before present (mybp).” This last common ancestor is unknown, of course. The authors continue, “In support of this, vertebrate hearing epithelia and cerebral promotor circuits that control vocal behaviors are considered to be homologous and operate in the same hindbrain compartment, respectively.”

Homology is a circular evolutionary concept, and is a “controversial term” according to some evolutionists. 

Q: Could it be that vertebrates share similar anatomical features because they were created according to a common plan, by a common Creator?

God created all animals after their kind, complete with sophisticated vocal abilities." 

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