| − | According to [[creationists]], representatives of THE CREATOR decended from a high altitude known as the sky. Then seeing a lack of small animals, they forged the wombat out of the elements Earth, Wood, Fire, and Water. All of which were created the week previous. | + | According to [[creationists]], representatives of the separately created wombat [[baraminology|archaebaramin]] were among those animals that migrated from the [[Middle East]] to [[Australia]] as part of the [[Post-Diluvian Diasporas]]. There is debate whether this migration happened over land<ref name="ca1">[http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c006.html "How did animals get from the Ark to isolated places, such as Australia?"], ChristianAnswers.net.</ref> -- as Australia was still for a time almost connected to Europe by land bridges similar to the one that connected Asia to America<ref>Batten, Don, et. al., 207, ''The Creation Answers Book'', [http://www.creationontheweb.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter17.pdf Chapter 17]</ref> -- or if they [[rafting (ecology) | rafted]] on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters.<ref name="ca1"/> |