THIS IS HUGE: Hippos Are Wonders of Creation (And a Big Problem for Close-Minded Evolutionists)

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Did you know the Hippopotamus spends most of its life in river waters, but they have no ability to swim. That deficiency doesn’t prevent them from being in water deeper than their noses. In fact, they can’t swim and they can’t float but they can sleep underwater!

So how does the Hippo survive in deep water? As Eric Lyons of the Apologetics Press explains in the following 6:08 video, Hippos have an unconscious reflex that prompts them to push themselves up to the surface to breathe every five minutes or so. Given the Hippo’s gigantic size — the largest ones can weigh 9,000 pounds — those four stubby legs must have some fantastic muscles.

But beyond the amazement this characteristic ought to inspire is a critical question: Given the mechanics of macro-evolutionary natural selection, how did the Hippo end up with such a reflex? Without it, wouldn’t the Hippo’s natural self-preservation instinct keep it out of deep waters?

And even if one did somehow stumble into a hole and sink below the surface, wouldn’t it then panic? Or flail its stubby legs trying, vainly, to swim or otherwise get back to a survivable depth? And if in its struggling the hippo did manage to push itself back to the surface, how would that prompt an unconscious reflex?

According to evolutionary theory, animals develop over time by retaining only such characteristics as contribute to their survival. But from where would the first hippo to exhibit the unconscious reflex get that reflex?

Assuming such a reflex is a purely physical process, what prompted it? A bunch of prior hippos developed flawed stages of the reflex, wouldn’t the evolutionary process dispense with the reflex as not contributing to the animal’s survival? Perhaps this is an illustration of a gaping hole in macro-evolutionary theory?