The World of Creation

The Creative Mysteries of the Frog

By Professor Woong Sang Lee
Vice President, Korean Association of Creation Research
Dean of Chaplain's Office, Myongji University, Seoul

A frog is a typical batrachian, which can live on land as well as in water. In fact, frogs like to spend a lot of time in water. However, some frogs can also live in the desert where it is not easy to live because water is scarce. Some scientists have their doubts about them. Such a frog is the Rheobatrachus silus that lives in the desert in Australia. Usually they must have water to survive. They lay eggs in water and the eggs hatch into polliwogs. Then, how can they survive in the dry desert without a drop of water? This is one of the mysteries of God's creation.

When the weather is hot and dry for a long time, Rheobatrachus silus dig a hole 30 centimeters deep, twice as deep as their body and get into the hole. As its name indicates, this frog tries to reserve as much moisture in its body as possible. So it inhales moist air through its nose and makes his body bulge to prevent loss of moisture. They start to hibernate in this condition.

Rheobatrachus silus save their body energy by lowering their pulse rate and their breathing. Then they wait for the rain to come. Sometimes they are in hibernation for several years. However, as soon as they get up and go out of the hole, they catch food to get nutrition. When puddles become full of water, they lay eggs and incubate into polliwogs, and they grow into frogs quickly. They prepare for the next dry season. When the puddle is dry, the little frogs get into the hole with their mother until it rains.

Evolutionists believe that amphibia, including Rheobatrachus silus, evolved from fish. Therefore, they insist that amphibia can live not only on land like animals, but also live in the water like fish. If this were true, then how can Rheobatrachus silus develop and be able to live in the desert without water where fish and the normal frog cannot live? Rheobatrachus silus should be exterminated before they develop into a normal frog. For a long time, Coelacanth has been known as a transitional fossil between a fish and a frog, but there was no trace of evolution in the fossil when compared with the bones of similar fish caught by a trawler captain in 1938.

Therefore, we can support the position that all things were created to be in their particular place.

"So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good" (Genesis 1:21, NIV).