How do evolutionists explain the feral pig?

Question

Here is a link: http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/wildlife/PUBL/wlnotebook/Pig.htm
These Pigs arent native to america. They are wild domestic pigs. They develope thicker hair, bigger tusks and are much more aggresive. Shouldn't this transformation take millions of years. There are stories about domestic pigs that excape and take on these characteristics within a couple months.

So by your own argument of evolution requiring millions of years. Are you admitting that it can take place in a short period of time. If I found bones of these two animals, couldnt I say that they were different animals?

We explain it by saying that Noah took each of its own kind. That doesnt mean that every animal came from a single life form, but from its own kind. A single type of animal, but we are not related to all of these animals. Man was one of these kinds. Birds were one of these kinds, Creeping things were one of these kinds. And beasts were one of these kinds.

Answer 1

You're right. . .Cancel the whole evolution thing!!!

I'll call the papers.

Answer 2

Without selective breeding and farming practices domestic animals do not breed true. Feral animlas will not look like their well groomed pampered domestic counterparts. Pigs are aggressive by nature anyway - having to fend for themselves will bring that out - even in escaped animals. And it is common for teeth to be clipped, and with hogs being slaughtered at a relatively young age tusks dont have time to develop. Older domestic boars do grow tusks. and some pigs are fairly hairy too.

An escaped hog will not change it's appearance any more than it's genes allow, but with different food, environment, social settings, it will be leaner, and if not killed will develop more traits that domestic pigs don't live long enough to develop.

Answer 3

It's because when they are domesticated, we suppress the physical aspects they ALREADY HAVE. Mostly with diet and location, and vets ;)

If you go without shaving for a few months, does your hair grow? How about your fingernails, if you don't trim them? If you go to the gym every day for a year, do you get bigger and stronger muscles?

Not quite the same, but you get the idea.

EDIT: By the way. FERAL is the NORMAL WAY OF THE WILD. That is the way THEY WOULD BE if MEN did not tamper with them! Domesticated pigs in and of themselves are a form of evolution, since we selectively breed animals with traits we want to continue.

Answer 4

From the very same article you linked us:

History of Feral Pigs in America

Domestic pigs were introduced from Europe to the Americas by Spanish explorers. Over time, some pigs escaped or were intentionally released into the wild. Subsequently, free-ranging, feral populations established themselves on American soil.

In 1893, 50 feral pigs from Germany's Black Forest were released on a hunting preserve in New Hampshire's Blue Mountains. Later, in 1910 and 1912, Russian wild boars were released on a North Carolina preserve near the Tennessee border. Russian wild boars were released again in 1925 near Monterey, California and a few years later on Santa Cruz Island. Some of these transplants escaped from the hunting preserves. Many of their offspring bred with feral descendants of domestic pigs.

Answer 5

Who said evolution takes millions of years? Evolution takes generations to occur. If you're talking about bacteria or fruit flies, that can be a couple of weeks.

Yes, it took millions of years to get from microbes to men. It doesn't take nearly as long to get from pig to hairier pig.

It's also important to remember that the diet and breeding habits of domestic pigs is heavily controlled. Any pig, if allowed to forage and breed freely will get hairier, because its diet and breeding cycles have a strong effect on its hormone balance.

All boars have tusks. Domestic hogs have their tusks periodically shaven, to make them less likely to hurt the other hogs.

Answer 6

Gee, doesn’t that sound like selection for the traits needed to survive? They are still pigs, though. Where is the species change?

You don’t even understand your own question, do you?
In fact, you don’t know anything about any of this, do you?

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Kailee –

Yes, and we far from suppress all of it. Even domestic pigs can have foul temperaments and be aggressive. Combined with their intelligence, size, and sharp teeth, they are not to be messed with. I know because I learned the hard way when I was a kid visiting my grandparents farm.


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As long as you brought up Noah –

What kind of sadistic God would create life just so he could drown almost every living thing on earth?

Why did he lead his ‘chosen people’ on a 40-year wild goose chase while systematically killing 80% of them?

What kind of parent humiliates, tortures, and kills their own child?

I would not let such a person near anyone I cared about (or even did not care about), nor will I bow down and worship such scum.

Answer 7

I once saw something not all that long ago that was talking about evolutionary changes in the canine family. And about how these fox breeders, when they were breeding for foxes that were less skittish, with "desirable" personalities and other traits...they started to notice their ears started to droop and they started to "bark"... So breeding and environment can play a large part with genes... Certain things are not technically large changes if it was already in the animals DNA.

Answer 8

How do creationists explain it? Shouldn't the Pigs just be created to be pigs? Why would God have given them Feral qualities that only come out in certain circumstances?

Answer 9

It's called a couple of months evolution.

Also known as adaptation

Answer 10

I'm more curious as to how creationists would explain them. Did God put them there when we weren't looking? How many more acts of this "ninja creationism" has God done?