All these families are obviously recognizable enough in the fossil record for scientists to be able to refer to them as species still existing today. It is clear then, that the species listed look very much the same way they did supposedly tens of millions of years ago. Rather, the ancestors of all toads and frogs were created by God ex nihilo , looking much like they do today, but with all the immensely complex genetic information needed for a wide variety of species to descend from them. Institute for Creation Research, CA, USA, pp. Return to text Ref.
Tadpoles have no jaws, lungs or eyelids, and possess a skeleton of cartilage.
First to appear are 'buds', which grow into hind limbs. Much later, the front limbs emerge, and the tail begins to shrink, being absorbed by the body. Jaws and teeth then develop. Cartilage turns into hardened bone, and the long, coiled intestine of the tadpole shrinks to the short, thick-walled folded intestine of the adult . These radical changes are equalled in the animal kingdom only by the metamorphosis found in insects.