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DARWINISM REFUTED

The popularly told example of horse evolution, suggesting a gradual
sequence of changes from four-toed fox-sized creatures living nearly 50
million years ago to today's much larger one-toed horse, has long been
known to be wrong. Instead of gradual change, fossils of each intermediate
species appear fully distinct, persist unchanged, and then become extinct.
Transitional forms are unknown. 152
While discussing this important dilemma in the scenario of the
evolution of the horse in a particularly honest way, Rensberger brought
the transitional form difficulty onto the agenda as the greatest difficulty of
all.
Dr. Niles Eldredge said the following about the “evolution of the
horse” diagram:
There have been an awful lot of stories, some more imaginative than
others, about what the nature of that history [of life] really is. The most
famous example, still on exhibit downstairs, is the exhibit on horse evolution
prepared perhaps fifty years ago. That has been presented as the literal truth
in textbook after textbook. Now I think that is lamentable, particularly when
the people who propose those kinds of stories may themselves be aware of
the speculative nature of some of that stuff. 153

Then what is the scenario of the evolution of the horse? This scenario
was formulated by means of the deceitful charts devised by the sequential
arrangement of fossils of distinct species that lived at vastly different
periods in India, South Africa, North America, and Europe, solely in
accordance with the rich power of evolutionists' imaginations. More than
20 charts of the evolution of the horse, which by the way are totally
different from each other, have been proposed by various researchers.
Thus, it is obvious that evolutionists have reached no common agreement
on these family trees. The only common feature in these arrangements is
the belief that a dog-sized creature called Eohippus (Hyracotherium), which
lived in the Eocene period 55 million years ago, was the ancestor of the
horse. However, the fact is that Eohippus, which became extinct millions of
years ago, is nearly identical to the hyrax, a small rabbit-like animal which
still lives in Africa and has nothing whatsoever to do with the horse. 154
The inconsistency of the theory of the evolution of the horse becomes
increasingly apparent as more fossil findings are gathered. Fossils of
modern horse species (Equus nevadensis and Equus occidentalis) have been

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