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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