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Horse
Scientific classification
Kingdom Information
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum Information
Phylum	[[Chordata]]
Sub-phylum	[[Vertebrata]]
Class Information
Class	[[Mammalia]]
Order Information
Order	[[Perissodactyla]]
Sub-order	Hippomorpha
Family Information
Family	Equidae
Genus Information
Genus	Equus
Species Information
Species	caballus (Domestic Horse) Equus ferus caballus (Wild Horse)
Population statistics

Horses are large mammals known for their beauty and usefulness to humans. They provide a source of rapid transportation for hunting and travel and can pull wagons and carts. Before the invention of the tractor, horses were invaluable to farmers who used them to plough fields and haul heavy loads.

Long a source of wonder and mystery, these intelligent animals have been bred since antiquity. Their use for transportation was curtailed in the early 1900s as automobiles (then called "horseless carriages") replaced them and the annoying horse pollution they dropped on city streets.

Evolutionary view of Origins

Evolutionists claim that the modern horse has slowly evolved into its present form over the course of about 60 million years. From Eohippus (60 million years ago) to our "modern-day horse," Equus (1 million years ago). They base this claim on the gradual "change" of the leg bones from the toes of Eohippus to the hoofs of Equus. They also argue that the skull shows an evolutionary trend from fossil to fossil. However, there is no site in the entire world that this supposed macroevolutionary succession can be seen in the fossil record. Instead, the fossils have been gathered from several different continents and put together to form the sequence.^[1]

In addition to the location of the fossils, evolution demands that in order for this sequence to be true, Eohippus must have lived before all of the others. Therefore, Eohippus would be found lower than all the others in the rock strata. However, fossils of Equus have been found just as close to the surface of the earth as Eohippus fossils.

On top of all that, even though the leg bones and skull of the fossils seem to show an macroevolutionary sequence, the rest of the skeletons do not. The ribs vary in amount from 15-19 with no obvious pattern. The lumbar vertebrae vary from 6-8, again with no pattern. According to evolution, these also should follow some sort of "trend."

Young Earth Creationist view of Origins

Young Earth Creation scientists have found the horse baramin to be one of the kinds taken by Noah aboard the Ark. Horses, being domesticated, were likely one of the "clean" animals mentioned in Genesis 7:2–3. Therefore all horse-like animals (including zebras and donkeys) as well as horses are descended from the seven horses taken by Noah aboard the ark.^[2]

References

1. ↑ Exploring Creation with Biology, by Dr. Jay L. Wile and Marilyn F. Durnell, Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc., 2005.
2. ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v19/i2/animals.asp