The Queensland discovery at Alderley in 1914 had been claimed as a giant dicynodont, a mammal-like reptile that looked like a giant wombat, dating from the Cretaceous period (see "The Last Dicynodont: An Australian Cretaceous Relict" Tony Thulborn and Susan Turner). Recently scientists did more research into the Queensland fossils and now claim they are actually from a diprotodontid, a marsupial mammal that is wombat-like and as big as a hippopotamus (see"The last dicynodont? A 100 year old fossil mystery with bite" by Espen Knusten).
Their evolutionary theories say that diprotodontid lived around 2 million years ago so now they conveniently drop the cretaceous evidence in which is was found and say it was only about 2 million years old or less. This is hardly science but manipulating the so-called facts to suit the assumptions of a evolutionary worldview. If they wish to do that then at least be honest about it. How reliable are their dating methods when they make a 200 million year discrepancy?
There is a big difference between evidence and facts, and those assumptions and interpretations proposed to explain that evidence. Usually both evolutionists and creationists are looking at the same evidence but coming to different conclusions based on their assumptions and worldview that they try to interpret the evidence.
Will they also at some stage discover the one found in Tasmania is also a diprotodontid and then have to deny their Triassic date for the fossil, even though the evidence for such a dating is pretty definite to this period (see "New Evidence of Large Permo-Triassic Dicynodonts (Synapsida) from Australia" Andrew C. Rosefelds, Anne Warren , Allison Whitfield and Stuart Bull). Of course the Triassic is only from 2005-1850 BC in my creationist dating of the geologic column. And their dating of the diprotodontid fossil is now to the Pliocene (1513-1470 BC).
As mammals lived at the same time as dinosaurs and reptiles in the creationist outlook I am not inhibited by the evolutionary assumptions. Thus it is possible that the so-called giant dicynodonts were actually not mammal-like but actually mammals from Triassic times who descended from possibly a smaller version of themselves that came on the Ark with Noah.
Did they become extinct in the cataclysmic events of 1850 BC at the time of the tower of Babel destruction? Or did they speciate and were the marsupial diprotodontids one of their descendant species and wombats another? Or do our wombats descend on a different line from the original smaller wombat-like ancestor that arrive with Noah on the Ark?
The evolutionists claim that marsupials first occurred around 165-125 million year ago. This is in the Jurassic period-Cretaceous period (which I date from 1850-1654 BC and the Paleogene period which are all synonymous). So it is quite possible that the marsupial diprotodonid found in Queensland could have been from the Cretaceous period so our modern day wombats could have descended from them through speciation after the cataclysmic events of 1470 BC that caused the Ice Age when evolutionists claim our wombats originated.
Thus the original wombat-like kind must have had the potential in their DNA to be placental or marsupial. When there were certain cataclysmic and climatic events, then wombat-like species as well as other certain mammals that had this potential to be placental or marsupial in their gene code then speciated in that way. This may have occurred with the switching off of certain genes or even the removal of certain genes (due to the cataclysmic events) that dominated for placental births and the switching on of those genes for having marsupial births.
It is said that all marsupial have certain imprinted genes in which some are unique to them. This is referring to concept of changes to DNA sequence which then gene expression is altered through certain epigenetic modifications. Of course, there is needed much more creationist research into this in order to clarify this issue of the speciation history of wombats and other mammals. We also have to ask were the ancestor of our wombat and the ancestors of dicynodont and diprotodonid three separate creations who all came on the Ark?
I am blessed that I live in an area of Tasmania in which I regularly encounter wombats all the time. They are beautiful creatures who proclaim the glory of God and his creative wisdom and sense of fun and delight.
