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Spring 2006                                                            Volume 7, Issue 2

The Fossil Record

The Fossil Record      Studies in Christian Evidences

Evolution Of The Horse

Everyone knows the horse evolved from a creature about the size of a dog...don’t they? And it is proven by all the mock-ups in museums, isn’t it? Certainly if you can go into a museum and see exactly how the horse evolved that should show evolution’s proof of its having happened. Notice the following statement:

“Horses are among the best documented examples of evolutionary development” (World Book Encyclopedia 1982 ed p. 333).

Sorry. You’ve been misled...again. There is NO (repeat, NO) proof of the evolution of the horse. The following information shows the serious problems the horse-evolution theory has to overcome to be valid.

First, those scholars (paleontologists) in the museums cannot agree on how the horse evolved. There are 20 different horse series in different museums that have different sequences to portray its supposed evolution—no two exactly alike. If it were truly a scientific fact, there would not be the diversity of opinions as to how it happened.

Second, the sequence from a small many-toed to a large one-toed form is absent in the fossil record. The animal which “began” the evolution is usually listed as Eohippus which has four toes on the front feet and three on the rear feet. There are no fossils which show these feet changing during their “in-between stages,” only fossils of animals with different numbers of toes. Actually, there are no transitional forms between any of the supposed horse fossils, nor of an ancestor to Eohippus. He appears suddenly fully an animal much like the hyrax (daman) living now in Africa. Eohippus had suction cups on its feet and climbed trees, which thankfully was not “passed on” to the modern horse.

Third, the number of rib bones does not agree with the sequence. The modern horse has 18 pair, the Eohippus 18, but the supposed “in-between" stages were no series at all. The “in-between” Orohippus had 15 pairs and the Pliohippus had 19 pairs. This is not consistent with the way evolution is supposed to work.

Next, there is no place where a complete series of fossils in the correct evolutionary order has been found. As a matter of fact (real fact) Eohippus fossils have been found in top strata alongside of fossils of modern horses in many places, and more “recent” horse fossils have been found below the strata in which the “more ancient” fossils were found. That does not support the theory.

Further, the “increase in size” from Eohippus (about the size of a dog) through 21 genera to modern horses proves nothing at all since full-grown modern horses can be as small as 22 inches high and as large as the shires of England—all solidly horses.

So what are the odds of undirected occurrences producing a horse from that first single cell over eons of time?

Some have thought it would just be a normal event resulting from an evolutionary series. But the best estimate of evolutionary thinking has come up with a statistical probability in this statement:

“The odds of getting a horse from a single cell are one in 1000 to the millionth power (that’s one, followed by three million zeroes)!” Now the reader may think that some creationist came up with that statistic some Sunday afternoon while sitting at home contemplating horse. No, the quote is from a book entitles Evolution in Action by Julian Huxley, p. 42. Huxley was one of the world’s leading atheists and vehemently against creation.

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