[Avodah] Mabul and Dinosaurs from R Shlomo Miller shlitah

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# 1612 The Neighborhood Good Flood    

Q. My son asked me how the animals which appear to be indigenous to
Australia only (for example), arrived there after the flood? Were they
there before the flood? Were they destroyed by the flood? Were there
kangaroos on the tayva?

A. Whether all animals worldwide died during the Mabul may be open to
discussion. Fish were not included in the decree of destruction by the
Mabul as Rashi (7: 21) quotes from the Talmud, (Sanhedrin 108a)

Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a suggested that maybe animals in lands
uninhabited by humans did not perish.

Another possibility is that most lands including Australia, were then
joined as one single land mass. Maharitz Chiyois (Nidah 23a) teaches
that the Mabul caused great geologic disturbances that created mountains
and valleys where previously there were none. Bereishis Rabbah (28:3),
Ramban (8:11) and others mention that the very foundations of the planet
were affected during the flood.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlita
Posted 2/5/2018 12:23 PM