Of Hippopotamuses, England, and the Flood

While there were other hippopotamuses long ago, there are only two kinds left: the pygmy and the river. Interesting contrast, as the river hippo makes its home in the Nile. It is the third largest land animal and very dangerous.

They are also fragile. To modify a line from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hippopotamuses glide through water in much the same way that bricks don't. Water temperature must be just right, and no salt, either. So how did they get to merrie olde England?

Dining hippopotamus, Pixabay / Petar Ubiparip

Since they cannot fit through the doors of mass transit and they cannot operate motor vehicles, they must have walked.

But Cowboy Bob, England isn't very merry and it's surrounded by water!

Well, Ireland and Britain are islands now, but there was a time when the areas were accessible by foot. This involves the Ice Age that was the result of the Genesis Flood. (People have some wrong ideas about the Ice Age, such as many of them in the past and always cold all the time.) The ice age also explains what scientists call disharmonious associations, odd mixes of fossils of disparate critters that could not have lived together. There was a land bridge because ice dammed up the water for a spell.

Contrary to what is commonly believed, evolutionary scientists have difficulty explaining many observations concerning the history of our planet. One is the unexpected discovery of hippopotamus bones in Ice Age sediments in northwest Europe and especially in England.

To continue reading, skate on over to "The hippos of England."