A Plague of Fluffy Bunnies and the Genesis Flood

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Bwasted wabbits brought to Australia, then became a nightmare for agriculture! Cuteness evaporates for those viewing them after they damaged crops. Only twenty-four rabbits, and they did what rabbits do: Eat and make offspring. Hundreds of millions of offspring.

The conditions were right, since there was great eating and no significant predators. Biblical creationists can use this fluffy bunny plague as an example of population growth and apply it to the Genesis Flood. There are several factors to take into consideration.

Rabbits are not so cute in Australia, as they are major pests. Creationists study their population growth and can apply it to post-Genesis Flood.
Rabbit, Flickr / Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar (CC BY 2.0)
Scoffers say that it is ridiculous that the populations of humans and animals can be rebuilt after the Flood by so few specimens. They need to learn to do the math and figure in exponential growth.

Another objection is that inbreeding depression would result. Today, yes. (Charles Darwin was concerned about his offspring when he married a first cousin.) Back at the time of the Flood, genetic degradation was not nearly as pronounced as it is now.
In 2022, Francis Jiggins, a geneticist at the University of Cambridge, and his team investigated the genetics of a representative sample from around Australia. They could all be traced from a shipment of 24 rabbits that arrived from England to Melbourne, Australia, on 25 December 1859 (the year Darwin published Origin of Species). This Christmas gift to wealthy English settler Thomas Austin proved to be the proverbial coal in the stocking for Australia as a whole.

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The Australian rabbit has lessons relevant to true world history revealed in the Bible.

The entire article is found at "Lessons from Australia’s rabbit plague."