Komodo dragons, like other reptiles, show no evidence of evolution from non-reptiles.
Komodo … earth’s last big dragon
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Komodo dragons are the largest lizards on earth today. There is
evidence from fossils that lizards in the group to which komodos
belong were even larger in the past. But there is no evidence
that they ever evolved from non-reptiles.
Fearsome-looking komodo dragons live on only four islands in the world. All four islands are among the 13,670 islands that make up the Republic of Indonesia in South-East Asia.
Many historians think the well-known depictions of legendary Chinese dragons were modelled on creatures like the Komodo dragon. The Komodo's long, forked, yellow-orange tongue flicks out of its mouth like wisps of fire.
Komodos are the largest lizards living today. They can grow to three meters (10 feet) long, although the biggest and most savage-looking specimens were slaughtered before the Indonesian Government set up its current protection policy.
Komodos are a species of monitor lizard. Monitors include the Australian goanna, which is a lizard similar to the Komodo dragon but which rarely reaches lengths of more than two meters (six feet).
Many creatures that lived in the environment before Noah's Flood seemed to reach huge sizes. Fossils of gigantic monitors have been discovered that show that today's isolated colonies have come from much larger and more wide-ranging monitors of earlier times.
No Komodo evolution
Fossils of Varanus, the lizard group to which Komodo dragons belong, have been found in Australia measuring an incredible nine meters (30 feet) long! That's almost equivalent to the height of a three-story building lying on its side. Yet these fossils give no indication that the giant reptiles evolved from any other type of creature.
Today, Komodo dragons are disappearing. Even with special care it is rare to find a zoo dragon living beyond 25 years. In the wild, it is possible they live 100 years.
It is conceivable that creatures like Komodo dragons, or even some similar-looking types of dinosaurs, were the models for Chinese dragon portrayals. But what is more certain is that there is no indisputable evidence that reptiles, the larger scientific category to which Komodo dragons belong, have evolved from non-reptiles. (Read why.)
We believe this surely makes the alternative explanation — that all groups of reptiles were created by God — the most credible option.
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