. The Bible and science. Fig. 178.—Mosohippus. In the earlier part of the Miocene period we findthe Mesohippus, which has the radius and ulna entire,and the tibia and fibula distinct. It has three digitson the fore-foot, and the rudiment of a fourth, and theteeth are simpler still. RESEMBLANCE OF THESE TO THE TAPIR. 325 On going back still further, to the Eocene period,we find the oldest form of the horse known—theOrohippus. In it we have a well-developed ulna andfibula, four complete toes in the fore-foot, and threein the hind, and simple teeth with double fangs. Here, then,. we find distinct
. The Bible and science. Fig. 178.—Mosohippus. In the earlier part of the Miocene period we findthe Mesohippus, which has the radius and ulna entire,and the tibia and fibula distinct. It has three digitson the fore-foot, and the rudiment of a fourth, and theteeth are simpler still. RESEMBLANCE OF THESE TO THE TAPIR. 325 On going back still further, to the Eocene period,we find the oldest form of the horse known—theOrohippus. In it we have a well-developed ulna andfibula, four complete toes in the fore-foot, and threein the hind, and simple teeth with double fangs. Here, then,. we find distinct evidence of the kindAve should expect if the evolution theory be true, and,considering how small a portion of the earths surfacehas yet undergone a thorough geological examination, fore-loot. hind-foot. fore- upper lower arm. leg. molar. Fig. 179.—Eocene Orohippus. and also the necessary imperfection of the geologicalrecord itself, the wonder is that we have got so muchevidence of this sort, and not that there is so littleof it. According to the doctrine of special creation wemust imagine that during the Eocene period particlesof earth became united together into a form like,and yet unlike, that of the horse and the tapir ofthe present day—the Orohippus; and that those par-ticles were not merely agglomerated so as to assume 326 THE HORSE—MILTON VERSUS DARWIN. the form of this animal, but that they were convertedinto flesh, blood, and bone, and then sprang fromthe earth a living animal. At the end of the Eoceneperiod, these animals all died out, leaving behindthem only their bones, which we still find in afossil condition. During the next period, the Mioceneepoch, a similar process was repeated no less thanthree times, each successive race of animals, theMesohippus, Miohippus, and Protohippus, resemblingthe horse
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