This was originally posted on The HSB Backyard (I write the Animal Facts column every week). Be sure to stop by and see the other fun things on the Backyard!

Hello everyone! Today we will stray from looking at just one animal so that we can learn about convergent evolution. Don't let the long words confuse you -- it is really quite simple. Simple for us who believe in creation, that is. For evolutionists, convergent evolution is a big problem. In order to understand why, you must first understand the theory of evolution.

The theory of evolution, very simply put, is that all of a sudden, a bunch of non-living chemicals suddenly came to life to form a very, very simple organism. Over millions of years, and many generations of reproducing and experiencing random mutations to the genetic code, this very simple organism evolved into the complex life forms we see today -- fish, horses, birds, monkeys, humans, etc.

Now, evolutionists have what is called the "evolutionary tree," and this is a diagram of how these organisms branched out to evolve into different animals. For example, one organism started evolving into a frog, while another evolved into a horse. The evolutionists make the assumption that animals with similar traits evolved from a common ancestor. Animals that are very different are placed on opposite sides of the tree.
Most wolves give birth to their young like all other mammals do. But there is one wolf -- the Tasmanian wolf, which carries its babies in a pouch, just like a kangaroo does. Now, evolutionists place marsupials on the other side of the evolutionary tree from other mammals that give birth in the usual way. So this means that the Tasmanian wolf had to evolve separately from the common timber wolf! What nonsense.

Flight
Did you know that, according to evolutionists, flight had to evolve four different times? See, there are four different groups that can fly. We have birds, flying insects, flying mammals, and flying reptiles (which are extinct now, however). Flight is such a miracle that it is impossible that it could have randomly evolved once, let alone four different times.

Eyes
Squids and humans have eyes that are very similar. It is very easy to see that an evolutionist would not group humans and squids with the same ancestor. But yet our eyes evolved twice?! Sorry, I don't think so!

Those are just a few examples of convergent evolution; there are many more. And this is only one problem with the theory of evolution. There are many, many, many more! Did you know there are no problems with creation? That's because it's true. God made all the life on this planet in just three days! There is no such thing as lower life forms evolving into our "modern" life forms. If someone tries to tell you so, ask them about convergent evolution and see what they say!