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HARUN YAHYA

we saw in preceding pages, authorities such as Feduccia maintain that
these are collagen fibers—and that it’s a grave error to regard them as
feathers. 136

The Myth of Equine Evolution
The Myth of Equine Evolution
In the field of the origin of mammals, the myth of equine evolution
has for long been the foundation of Darwinists’ arguments. This is all a
myth, however, based on imagination rather than scientific facts.
Until recently, dramatizations of the evolution of the horse headed
the evidence for the theory of evolution. Today, however, many evolu-
tionists openly admit the invalidity of the equine evolution scenario. A
four-day meeting at the Chicago Museum of Natural History in
November 1980, attended by 15 evolutionists, considered the problems
of the theory of gradual evolution. One speaker, Boyce Rensberger, de-
scribed how the portrayal of the horse’s evolution had no scientific
foundations:
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 changes, fossils of each intermediate species appear fully dis-
tinct, persist unchanged, and then become extinct. Transitional forms are un-
known. 137
In expressing this important problem in such an honest manner,
Rensberger was saying that the gravest dilemma facing the whole the-
ory in the fossil record was that of transitional forms.
The well-known evolutionist paleontologist Niles Eldredge of
New York’s American National History Museum, says the following
about this scenario:
I admit that an awful lot of that [imaginary story] has gotten into the textbooks
as though it were true. For instance, the most famous example still on exhibit
downstairs [in the American Museum] is the exhibit on horse evolution pre-

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