hanged a little, and only the teeth evolved. Throughout the Miocene, bothfeet and teeth evolved rapidly. Rates of evolution depend on the ecologicalpressures facing the species.Sometimes, new species split off from their ancestors and then co-existedwith those ancestors. Other species came into being through anagenetictransformation of the ancestor had changed appearance enough to be given anew name. Sometimes only one or a few species arose, sometimes there werelong periods of stasis, and sometimes thee were enormous bursts ofevolution, when new ecological opportunities arose such as, theMerychippine Radiation. Again, evolution proceeds according to theecological pressures facing the individuals of a species and on the variationpresent within that species. Evolution takes place in the real world, withdiverse rates and modes, and cannot be reduced to a single, simple process.Creationists who wish to deny the evidence of horse evolution shouldcarefully consider the explanation of the sequence of horse fossils? Even ifcreationists insist on ignoring the transitional fossils, many of which havebeen found, again, how can the unmistakable sequence of these fossils beexplained? Did God create Hyracotherium, then kill off the Hyracotheriumand create some Hyracotherium-Orohippus intermediates, then kill off theintermediates and create Orohippus, then kill off Orohippus and createEpihippus, then allow Epihippus to micro-evolve into Duchesnehippus, thenkill off Duchesnehippus and create Mesohippus, then create Mesohippus-Miohippus intermediates, then create Miohippus, then kill off Mesohippus,and so on. Each species coincidentally similar to the species that came justbefore and came just after?Creationism utterly fails to explain the sequence of known horse fossils fromthe last 50 million years. That is without invoking the “God CreatedEverything To Look Just Like Evolution Happened” Theory.Truly persistent or desperate crea...
