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106 Origin of the Horses

Every day that pass es, a new fos - But per haps the most se ri ous weak ness
sil is dis cov ered that clear ly dem on - of Darwinism is the fail ure of pa le on -
strates the dis crep an cy of these tol o gists to find con vin cing phy lo ge -
claims about the ev o lu tion of hors es nies or se quen ces of or gan isms dem on -
strat ing ma jor ev o lu tion a ry change. . .
es pe cial ly since Eohippus fos sils have
The horse is of ten cit ed as the on ly ful -
been found in the same stra tum as
ly worked-out ex am ple. But the fact is
two mod ern horse spe cies, Equus ne -
that the line from Eohippus to Equus is
vad en sis and E. oc ci den tal is. 104 This
very er rat ic. It is al leged to show a con -
shows that hors es liv ing to day lived
tin u al in crease in size, but the truth is
at the same time as their sup posed
that some var i ants were small er than
an ces tors, prov ing that the so-called
Eohippus [the first in the se quence],
ev o lu tion of hors es nev er oc curred. not larg er. Specimens from dif fer ent
In his book The Great Evolution sour ces can be brought to geth er in a
Mystery, the ev o lu tion ist writer con vin cing-look ing se quence, but there
Gordon R. Taylor ex am ined top ics is no ev i dence that they were ac tu al ly
that Darwinism could not ex plain. ranged in this or der in time. 105
About the myth i cal horse se ries, he All these facts show that one of
writes: the ba sic proofs for the se ries sche ma