Page 90 - The Evolution Deceit

The Myth of Horse Ev o lu tion

ntil recently, an imaginary se-
quence supposedly showing the
U evolution of the horse was ad-
vanced as the principal fossil evidence
for the theory of evolution. Today, how-
ever, many evolutionists themselves
frankly admit that the scenario of horse
evolution is bankrupt. In 1980, a four-day
symposium was held at the Field Mu-
seum of Natural History in Chicago, with
150 evolutionists in attendance, to dis-
cuss the problems with gradualistic evo-
lutionary theory. In addressing the
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
proccess has been observed that would
account for the gradual evolution of
horses: There are breeds of horse of different
The popularly told example of horse sizes on Earth. The "evolution of the
evolution, suggesting a gradual se- horse" sequence is nothing more than
quence of changes from four-toed fossils belonging to these different
fox-sized creatures living nearly 50 breeds and certain other mammals
million years ago to today's much being set out one behind the other.
larger one-toed horse, has long been
ble, particularly when the people who
known to be wrong. Instead of grad-
propose those kinds of stories may
ual change, fossils of each intermedi-
themselves be aware of the specula-
ate species appear fully distinct, 2
tive nature of some of that stuff.
persist unchanged, and then become
extinct. Transitional forms are un- Then what is the basis for the sce-
known. 1 nario of the evolution of the horse? This
scenario was formulated by means of
Dr. Niles Eldredge said the following
the deceitful charts devised by the se-
about the “evolution of the horse” dia-
quential arrangement of fossils of dis-
grams:
tinct species that lived at vastly different
There have been an awful lot of sto- periods in India, South Africa, North
ries, some more imaginative than America, and Europe solely in accor-
others, about what the nature of that dance with the rich power of evolution-
history [of life] really is. The most fa- ists' imaginations. More than 20 charts
mous example, still on exhibit down- of the evolution of the horse, which by
stairs, is the exhibit on horse the way are totally different from each
evolution prepared perhaps fifty other, have been proposed by various
years ago. That has been presented researchers. Thus, it is obvious that evo-
as the literal truth in textbook after lutionists have reached no common
textbook. Now I think that is lamenta- agreement on these family trees. The