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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

pared perhaps 50 years ago. That has been presented as literal truth in textbook
after textbook. Now I think that that is lamentable. 138

So, what is the foundation of the equine evolution hypothesis? The
exhibits consisted of setting out, from small to large, of fossils belonging
to different species that lived in India, South America, North America
and Europe at very different times, arranged in the light of the power of
evolutionists’ imaginations. Various researchers have proposed more
than 20 charts of the evolution of the horse—which, by the way, are to-
tally different from one other. There is no agreement among evolution-
ists concerning these very different family trees. The only common
feature in these classifications is the belief that a dog-like creature
Eohippus or “dawn horse” (Hyracotherium), which lived in the Eocene
period some 55 million years ago, was the first ancestor of the horse.
However, Eohippus, which became extinct millions of years ago, is al-

most identical to the mammal known as the hyrax, which lives today in
Africa and has no connection to horses at all. 139
The invalidity of the claim of equine evolution is being seen more
clearly every day with the discovery of new fossils. Fossils of horse
breeds alive today (Equus nevadensis and Equus occidentalis) have been
found in the same strata as Eohippus. 140 This shows that the modern-day

This series of horses in a museum actually consists of various
creatures that lived at different times and in different places, as-
sembled in an arbitrary order. There is no evidence in the fossil
record of the horse’s so-called ancestors.

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