Monkeys Who Rafted to the New World? Does Evolution Hold Up?

Different animals on every continent, and no ancestors

Australia has marsupials like kangaroos and koalas, South America has sloths and armadillos, and North America has its own horse family lineage. Evolution explains these completely different animals on each continent like this: "They branched off from a common ancestor and evolved in different directions."

1. Ghost ancestors that never show up

But Australia has no common-ancestor fossils. Kangaroos appear in the rock layers already looking like kangaroos.
The fossils claimed as ancestors of South America's sloths and armadillos already have those features fully formed. There are no common ancestors or transitional fossils.
The North American horse series is just a lineup of species of different sizes, with no common ancestor above them.
Australia, South America, North America: animals just pop into existence without fossils showing them evolving from a common ancestor.

2. No matter how hard you look, the fossils don't turn up

Scholars reach for the all-purpose cheat code: "Conditions made fossilization difficult."
But if hundreds of millions of "common ancestors" thrived for tens of millions of years and not a single one was fossilized, why are the "finished modern species," which lived for a relatively short time, found in such abundance?

3. "Monkeys who discovered the New World by raft"

Unable to explain why unique species appear on each continent after the continents separated, scientists proposed the "ocean rafting hypothesis."
It claims that African monkeys happened to climb onto a mat of fallen trees, crossed thousands of kilometers of the Atlantic, and settled in South America.
The evidence offered is that their DNA is similar to African monkeys, but that degree of similarity is shared by all living things.

4. Did the common ancestor fall from the sky?

Evolution goes a step further and claims the existence of LUCA, the last universal common ancestor of all life.
But DNA, proteins and cell membranes, the basic components of life, are structures that can only exist if the others already exist.

DNA stores information, but copying and reading it requires proteins (enzymes).
Proteins carry out the information, but their blueprint exists only in DNA.
The cell membrane protects all of this, but maintaining it also requires highly designed protein machinery.