They base their story on the claims of Marc Bracke of Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Now it is a fact that pigs do not have sweat glands, thus wallowing in cool mud helps to keep them cool and also protects against sunburn. But Bracke tells a tale of the pig’s need to wallow being anchored in its (supposed) evolutionary history.
“We all evolved from fish, ( Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Romans 1:22 ) so it could be that this motivation to be in water could be something that was preserved in animals that are able to do so.”And Bracke says that evolution didn’t stop at the pig. Happy to cite other evolutionists’ theories that a pig-like animal gave rise to whales, Bracke says its love of mud was the key:
“An ‘innate’ preference for wallowing-like behaviour may thus have been instrumental in the evolution of whales.”And again:
“It seems to me that this preference to be in shallow water could have been a turning point in the evolution of whales from land-dwelling mammals.”So, whales arose through some porcine love of wallowing in muddy water, (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Romans 1:22 ) which itself was a throwback to an evolutionary ancestor that lived in it? And Bracke didn’t just mean fish, but all the way back to the mooted beginning of life in some muddy pond. “Life seems to have started in a ‘mud pool’ ( Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Romans 1:22 )or ‘earth-soup’” wrote Bracke in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science." CMI
Needs Repeating..... Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Romans 1:22
