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Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

have not been able to establish any connection be-
tween Eohippus (or Hyracotherium), which they claim begins
the sequence, and condylarths, supposedly the ancestors of un-

gulates. 129
In addition, there are inconsistencies within the horse series.
Some of the creatures included in the sequence are proven to have
lived at the same time as one another. In January, 1981, National
Geographic published the surprising report that researchers in
Nebraska, USA came across thousands of 10-million-year-old fossils
that had been preserved after a sudden volcanic eruption. This news

dealt a severe blow to the scenario of horse evolution, because the
published photographs of these fossils showed both three-toed and
one-toed horses, 130 refuting the claim that genera in the horse series
evolved from one another. These creatures, claimed to have an an-
cestral connection, actually lived at the same time and in the same
place, and demonstrated no transitional characteristics that could
prove evolution. This discovery demonstrated that the evolutionist
propaganda of the horse series, long disseminated in museums and
textbooks, was completely imaginary and assembled on the basis of

preconceptions.
A greater inconsistency committed in the name of Darwinism
was Mesohippus and its supposed ancestors. Jonathan Wells, noted
for his criticism of Darwinism in his Icons of Evolution, writes that al-
though Miohippus actually appeared in the fossil record before
Mesohippus, it persists after it. 131
Interestingly, O.C. Marsh himself mentioned the exis-

tence of three-toed horses living in southwestern
America at that time and that in this respect, they

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