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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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