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Harun Yahya

While discussing this important dilemma in the scenario of the evolution of the horse in a particularly
honest way, Rensberger brought the transitional form difficulty onto the agenda as the greatest difficulty of
all.
Dr. Niles Eldredge said the following about the "evolution of the horse” diagram:

There have been an awful lot of stories, some more imaginative than others, about what the nature of that
history [of life] really is. The most famous example, still on exhibit downstairs, is the exhibit on horse evolu-

tion prepared perhaps fifty years ago. That has been presented as the literal truth in textbook after textbook.
Now I think that is lamentable, particularly when the people who propose those kinds of stories may them-
selves be aware of the speculative nature of some of that stuff. 125

Then what is the scenario of the evolution of the horse? This scenario was formulated by means of the
deceitful charts devised by the sequential arrangement of fossils of distinct species that lived at vastly dif-
ferent periods in India, South Africa, North America, and Europe, solely in accordance with the rich power

of evolutionists' imaginations. More than 20 charts of the evolution of the horse, which by the way are totally
different from each other, have been proposed by various researchers. Thus, it is obvious that evolutionists
have reached no common agreement on these family trees. The only common feature in these arrangements
is the belief that a dog-sized creature called Eohippus (Hyracotherium), which lived in the Eocene period 55
million years ago, was the ancestor of the horse. However, the fact is that Eohippus, which became extinct

millions of years ago, is nearly identical to the hyrax, a small rabbit-like animal which still lives in Africa and
has nothing whatsoever to do with the horse. 126
The inconsistency of the theory of the evolution of the horse becomes increasingly apparent as more fos-
sil findings are gathered. Fossils of today's horse species (Equus nevadensis and Equus occidentalis) have been
discovered in the same layer as Eohippus. 127 This is an indication that the today's horse and its so-called an-
cestor lived at the same time.

The evolutionist science writer Gordon R. Taylor explains this little-acknowledged truth in his book The
Great Evolution Mystery:

But perhaps the most serious weakness of Darwinism is the failure of paleontologists to find convincing phy-
logenies or sequences of organisms demonstrating major evolutionary change... The horse is often cited as the
only fully worked-out example. But the fact is that the line from Eohippus to Equus is very erratic. It is al-

leged to show a continual increase in size, but the truth is that some variants were smaller than Eohippus, not
larger. Specimens from different sources can be brought together in a convincing-looking sequence, but there
is no evidence that they were actually ranged in this order in time. 128

All these facts are strong evidence that the charts of horse evolution, which are presented as one of the
most solid pieces of evidence for the theory of evolution, are nothing but fantastic and implausible fairy
tales. Like other species, horses, too, came into existence without ancestors in the evolutionary sense.

The Evolution of the Horse exhibition in London's
Natural History Museum. This and other "evolu-
tion of the horse" diagrams show independent
species which lived at different times and in dif-
ferent places, lined up one after the other in a
very subjective presentation. In reality, there are
no scientific discoveries regarding the evolution
of the horse.

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