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There is no difference between fossil mammals dozens of millions of years old in natural history museums and those living today.
Furthermore, these fossils emerge suddenly, with no connection to species that had gone before.

This is true of all thirty-two orders of mammals ... The earliest and most primitive known members of every
order [of mammals] already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous se-
quence from one order to another known. In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin
of the order is speculative and much disputed ... This regular absence of transitional forms is not confined to

mammals, but is an almost universal phenomenon, as has long been noted by paleontologists. It is true of almost
all classes of animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate...it is true of the classes, and of the major animal phyla,
and it is apparently also true of analogous categories of plants. 123

The Myth of Horse Evolution

One important subject in the origin of mammals is the myth of the "evolution of the horse," also a topic to
which evolutionist publications have devoted a considerable amount of space for a long time. This is a myth,
because it is based on imagination rather than scientific findings.
Until recently, an imaginary sequence supposedly showing the evolution of the horse was advanced as the

principal fossil evidence for the theory of evolution. Today, however, many evolutionists themselves frankly
admit that the scenario of horse evolution is bankrupt. In 1980, a four-day symposium was held at the Field
Museum of Natural History in Chicago, with 150 evolutionists in attendance, to discuss the problems with the
gradualistic evolutionary theory. In addressing this meeting, evolutionist Boyce Rensberger noted that the sce-
nario of the evolution of the horse has no foundation in the fossil record, and that no evolutionary process has

been observed that would account for the gradual evolution of horses:

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 change, fossils of each intermediate species appear fully distinct, persist un-
changed, and then become extinct. Transitional forms are unknown. 124

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