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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

during the same geological period. Establishing an evolutionary
relationship among them is impossible even by the broadest stretch of the
imagination. The evolutionist zoologist R. Eric Lombard makes this point
in an article that appeared in the leading journal Evolution:
Those searching for specific information useful in constructing phylogenies
of mammalian taxa will be disappointed. 150
In short, the origin of mammals, like that of other groups, fails to
conform to the theory of evolution in any way. George Gaylord Simpson
admitted that fact many years ago:

This is true of all thirty-two orders of mammals ... The earliest and most
primitive known members of every order [of mammals] already have the
basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous
sequence from one order to another known. In most cases the break is so
sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and
much disputed ... This regular absence of transitional forms is not confined
to mammals, but is an almost universal phenomenon, as has long been noted
by paleontologists. It is true of almost all classes of animals, both vertebrate
and invertebrate...it is true of the classes, and of the major animal phyla, and
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The Myth of Horse Evolution
One important subject in the origin of mammals is the myth of the
"evolution of the horse," also a topic to which evolutionist publications
have devoted a considerable amount of space for a long time. This is a
myth, because it is based on imagination rather than scientific findings.
Until recently, an imaginary sequence supposedly showing the
evolution of the horse was advanced as the principal fossil evidence for
the theory of evolution. Today, however, many evolutionists themselves
frankly admit that the scenario of horse evolution is bankrupt. In 1980, a
four-day symposium was held at the Field Museum of Natural History in
Chicago, with 150 evolutionists in attendance, to discuss the problems
with the gradualistic evolutionary theory. In addressing this meeting,
evolutionist Boyce Rensberger noted that the scenario of the evolution of
the horse has no foundation in the fossil record, and that no evolutionary
process has been observed that would account for the gradual evolution
of horses:

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