Why Didn’t God Make Little Green Mammals?
Excerpt from “Why Knot?” Buy the book at Amazon
Have you ever seen or heard of a little green mammal?
Why not?
In biospheres with lots of grass and leaves, we find green reptiles and green birds, but no green mammals. If color is a survival factor for reptiles and birds, why not for mammals? Of all the species of mammals, wouldn’t you expect at least one to take that niche?
It’s easy to use Darwinian truisms to explain the color or structure of any creature after the fact. But what about the capabilities and the colors that, by the same logic, should exist but don’t?
Mammals evolved from reptiles and many reptiles are green, presumably because of the survival value of that color in many environmental niches. It would not have taken mutations for there to be green mammals. Rather, all that was needed was for one or more species to keep their green skin color and continue benefitting from that color. Why didn’t that happen? Why don’t any mammals have green skin, like snakes and crocodiles and frogs?
