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have tried to deceive the lay public by tampering with genuine fossils of extinct life forms and in-
venting a series of imaginary scenarios.
One of the best known of them is the so-called "evolution of the horse." Fossils belonging to en-
tirely different species that once lived in India, South America, North America and Europe were

arranged in order of size—from small to large—in the light of evolutionist imaginations. So far, dif-
ferent researchers have come up with more than 20 different equine evolution scenarios.
There is no agreement among them regarding all these completely different family trees. The

one point they commonly agree upon is their belief that a dog-like creature known as Eohippus (or
Hyracotherium) that lived in the Eocene epoch (54 to 37 million years ago) was the very first ancestor
of today's horses. However, Eohippus—portrayed as the ancestor of the horse and that became ex-
tinct millions of years ago—is almost identical to the present-day animal known as the hyrax, which
looks nothing like a horse and is totally unrelated to that species. 19

Moreover, it has been established that breeds of horse living today have also been discovered in
the same rock strata as Eohippus. This means that the horse and its supposed ancestor were both
20

The diagrams of the evolution of
the horse, which evolutionists pro-
pose solely on the basis of their
own imaginations, are not scien-
tific. They are obtained by laying
out fossil specimens of species that
lived in different parts of the world
and at different times. The fact is
that no such evolutionary process
ever happened.

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