Page 537 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

gradual evolution of the horse, and that there never was any such process:

The popularly told example of horse evolution, suggesting a gradual sequence of changes from four-toed, or
fox-like creatures, living nearly 50 million years ago, to today's much larger one-toe horse, has long been
known to be wrong. Instead of gradual change, fossils of each intermediate species appear fully distinct, per-
sist unchanged, and then become extinct. Transitional forms are unknown. 125

From the statements of Taylor, Nilsson and Rensberger, we can understand that there is no scientific

support for the supposed evolution of horses, and that the sequence is full of contradictions. So, if there
is no proof for the horse series, what is it based on? The answer is evident: As with all other Darwinist
scenarios, the horse series is imaginary; evolutionists assembled some fossils according to their own pre-
conceptions and gave the public the impression that the creatures had evolved from one another.

Marsh can be called the architect of the horse series, and there is no doubt that he played a role on
creating this impression. Almost a century later, Marsh's "technique" was described by the evolutionist
Robert Milner, who said that "Marsh arranged his fossils to 'lead up' to the one surviving species, blithely ig-
noring many inconsistencies and any contradictory evidence." 126

In short, Marsh created a scenario of his own and later assembled the fossils according to it as if ar-
ranging screwdrivers in his toolbox according to their size. But contrary to expectations, the new fossils
upset Marsh's scenario. The ecologist Garret Hardin says:

There was a time when the existing fossils of the horses
seemed to indicate a straight-line evolution from small to

large. . . As more fossils were uncovered . . . it was all too ap-
parent that evolution had not been in a straight line at all. 127

The fossils could not be arranged to show a gradual evo-
lution, such as Darwin had envisioned. The evolutionist,
Francis Hitching, explains:

Even when all possible fossils are included, there appear

to be major jumps in size of horses from one genus to the
next, without transitional examples. 128

Huxley, known as "Darwin's bulldog," was the first
theoretician of the imaginary horse series.

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