Whether or Not Horse Evolution Lends Any Credibility to Darwinism

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Whether or Not Horse Evolution Lends Any Credibility to Darwinism

Summary: Horse series is touted as the strongest evidence in support of Darwins

mechanism of evolution. However this is not correct. Since, there is no evidence

that supports migration of horse ancestors from North America to Asia acrossBering Land Bridge.

The evolution of the horse pertains to the phylogenetic ancestry of the

modern horse from the small, dog-sized, forest-

dwelling Eohippus over geologic time scales. Paleozoologists have been able to

piece together a more complete picture of the modern horse's

evolutionary lineage than that of any other animal.

The horse belongs to an order known as Perissodactyla, or "odd-toed

ungulates", which all share hooved feet and an odd number of toes on eachfoot, as well as mobile upper lips and a similar tooth structure. This means

that horses share a common ancestry with tapirs and rhinoceroses.

Horse evolution is cited as the best example in support of Darwins

mechanism of evolution essentially consisting of continuous, gradual

evolution by accumulation of random variations over immense periods of

time. In this context, Equidae fossils discovered are said to form a horse

series that is consistent with Darwins mechanism of evolution.

North America is presumed to be horses natural habitat. About 55 million

years ago there is supposed to be a dry land in the place where present strait

of Bering is. However there is no geological or geographical evidence to

support this contention. There are only presumptions. The ancestors of

American horses migrated to Asia, later Europe and distant Africa along thisbridge. Even archeologists cannot find their tracks. Even the timeline of

horse migration is different in different references varying from 25 million

years to 5 million years. For unknown reasons 30 million years ago horses

disappeared from America. No reason for extinction of Equidae family from

North America has ever been provided. One of the suppositions is that thesting of some fly was poisonous to horses. Moreover if horses became extinct

from North America 25 million years back, then where were the horses left to

migrate to Asia along Bering Land Bridge.Only in the 16th century horses

were brought to America by conquistadors.


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The Bering Strait is approximately 82 kilometres (51 mi; 44 nmi) wide at its

narrowest point, with depth varying between 98 feet (30 m) and 160 feet

(49 m).It connects the Chukchi Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean) to the north with

the Bering Sea (part of the Pacific Ocean) to the south. This is supposed to

have transformed into Bering Land Bridge, several times in the geological andgeographical history of Earth to permit migration of flora and fauna across

North American and European continents and then to Asia and Africa. Bering

Land Bridge is said to be 1000 Km wide from NORTH to SOUTH. However the

only reason cited in support of such a contention is compulsion of

Biogeography. To quote:

Some, like the ancientsaber-toothed cats, have a recurring geographical

range: Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America. The only way they could reach

the New World was by the Bering land bridge. Had this bridge not existed at

that time, the fauna of the world would be very different.

There is no independent geological or geographical evidence to support

existence of Bering Land Bridge. Hence the only difficult with this

presumption is that presumes the fact it has to prove.

Despite an excellent fossil record of the Equidae, there are still many gaps in

our evolutionary knowledge. Only the modern horse, zebras, wild asses and

donkey survive today, but many other lineages have become extinct over the

last 50,000 years. Detailed fossil information on the rate and distribution ofnew equid species has also revealed that the progression between species was

not as smooth and consistent as was once believed. Although some

transitions, such as that ofDinohippus to Equus, indeed appear to be gradual

progressions, a number of others, such as that of Epihippus to Mesohippus,

were relatively abrupt in geologic time, taking place over only a few million

years. The change in equids' traits was also not always a "straight line"

from Eohippus to Equus: some traits reversed themselves at various points in

the evolution of new equid species, such as size and the presence of

facialfossae, and only in retrospect can certain evolutionary trends be

recognized.

Therefore all the accumulated evidences points only to morphological trends

and patterns in Equidae family on empirical basis and are no evidence to

conclude any straight line evolution from from the small, dog-sized, forest-

dwelling Eohippus over geologic time scales to modern horse in accordance

with Darwins Mechanism of Evolution. Hence, the observed evolutionary


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morphological trends and patterns lend no credibility to Darwins mechanism

of Evolution. There is no evidence to show that ancestors of modern horse

actually migrated to Europe through Bering Strait. In fact extinction of horses

in North America 30 million years ago precludes such migration. In fact, all the

evidence points to correlations, associations and correspondences; widelyrampant in nature and for which no rational explanations are presently

available.

Cumulative evidence suggests some other mechanism of evolution other than

Darwinism. Observed morphological trends and patterns are nothing more

than correlations, associations and correspondences that are commonly seen

in our study of nature. Empirical data does not fit into Darwins mechanism of

evolution.

Author: Dr Mahesh C. Jain is a practicing medical doctor and has written thebook Encounter of Science with Philosophy A synthetic view. The book

begins with first chapter devoted to scientifically valid concept of God and

then explains cosmic phenomena right from origin of nature and universe up

to origin of life and evolution of man. The book includes several chapters

devoted to auxiliary concepts and social sciences as corollaries to the concept

of God. This is the only book which deals with origin of nature and universe

from null. Thirtieth chapter of the book deals with the subject matter of

Evolution of Life.

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