Bible critics often mock the historical account of Noah’s ark as being preposterous, because animals would have needed to travel all over the world, which would admittedly be practically impossible today.

Regardless of the travel opportunities afforded to the majority of creatures that disembarked from Noah’s great zoo, skeptics still try to marginalize the account by pointing to creatures like the platypus as an example of a creature that is far too small and fragile to have taken the trip of thousands of miles through the merciless deserts between northern Australia and Tasmania in the south. But do arguments like this really hold up when compared to what we read in God’s word and what we can observe in the world?