Floating Island of Monkeys

And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. Genesis 9:10

".....there are numerous floating islands in bogs, wetlands, lakes, and

rivers. Most of these floating islands are created by mosses that reach out from the banks and then break off. Nonetheless, the example of lizards being swept off one Caribbean island by a hurricane to a nearby island on a vegetation mat is a trivial example. The rafting of mammals, with their high metabolic rate and resource requirements (and, for many mammals—large size), appears to be the most difficult problem for biogeography.

Mazza et al. list many variables that all must be satisfied for a successful colonization over water, but they can be grouped into three main considerations: 

(1) biological variables 

(2) characteristics of the vessel, and 

(3) physical variables.

Nonetheless, these variables do not exhaust the issues.

To colonize a faraway land, there must be enough interfertile animals on the rafts. Just considering the vessel, it must be able to provide enough food and fresh water, be capable of staying afloat until it reaches the new location, and be carried by the right currents.

There are numerous small floating islands on isolated water bodies

adjacent to the Magdalena River of northwest Columbia. The rafts are composed of aquatic plants, bound together and floating. As the floating islands grow, they can support large woody vegetation such as vertical trees. These floating islands typically are 30 m long, but some are greater than 100 m long. One floating island was observed to have trees up to 10 m tall and monkeys on the limbs.

Creation scientists have a much better option for explaining biogeography. First, the rafts of logs and vegetation are a result of a

violent global Flood, so they do not have to drift down a river to the sea, but would already be floating on the oceans. Based on the estimated amount of coal, it is likely that the pre-Flood biosphere had about 10 times the amount of carbon, which could translate into 10 times the number of plants and trees compared to the present earth.

Moreover, there was much more rain during the early- to mid-Ice Age, so that the need for fresh water on the log mats would not necessarily have been a problem.

The recent observation of ‘floating islands’ large enough to support trees and monkeys provides interesting support for the Biblical framework of animal dispersal after Noah’s Flood." 

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