HORSE EVOLUTION
Another fossil series taken as a proof of evolution and widely illustrated in books about evolution, is the development of the horse. A small, three-toed creature, supposedly living about sixty million years ago, gradually enlarged one of its toes until it became a hoof. Many books depict a fossil sequence showing the various changes leading up to the modern horse. But, as with the peppered moth story discussed in the previous section (see page 30), this fossil sequence has been shown, even by evolutionists themselves, to be seriously flawed. Just placing a series of fossils in a certain sequence does not prove that evolution occurred, especially if, as in this case, the dating of the fossils was done on the basis of an evolutionary time scale. As one candid evolutionist said of the diagrams showing horse evolution: ‘At present, however, it is a matter of faith that the textbook pictures are true, or even if they are the best representations of the truth available to us at the present time’ He goes on to speak of the pattern of horse evolution as ‘chaotic.’ 37
Another writer highlights the subjective nature of the alleged sequence:
‘However, the fact is that the family tree of the horse is continuous only in
the textbooks. At no place in the world do the rock strata disclose a continuous
and complete set of horse fossils … The sequence depends on arranging fossils
together from all over the world, and since we have learned that rocks are only
classified by the fossils they contain, the entire family tree is an entirely
subjective arrangement.’ 38
References
37
G.A. Kerkut: Implications of Evolution, 1960, pages 144-149.
38 N.J. Mitchell: Evolution
and the Emperor’s New Clothes, page 137.