The Horse and Creation
by Owen Borville
August 23, 2020
Biology
The Horse is one of the most useful animals to mankind and its bodily features and abilities are a testament to an Intelligent Designer who had the animal and humans in mind.
Distinguishing features of the horse are its streamlined and athletic body, slender legs, and its hooved feet, along with its characteristic mane, long neck, and tail. The athletic ability of the wild horse allows it to escape predators and allows domesticated horses to be useful to humans for riding and pulling things. For years of human history, the horse was the only reliable transportation.
Horses can stand up to 6 feet tall, 8 feet long, and weigh up to 2,000 pounds, although some weigh less than 1,000 pounds.
Horses can run up to 30 miles per hour. Some racehorses have produced speeds over 40 miles per hour and the fastest sprint is recorded at 55 miles per hour.
In addition to its heart that pumps blood, the horse has four extra pumps in its hoofs that pump blood back to the heart.
One of the most unique abilities of the horse is the ability to run shortly after birth. The fact that horses are born fully formed and can run so soon after birth is a miracle and could only be the product of design and creation.
Horses can also sleep by lying down and by standing up. The ability to sleep while standing up helps in escaping predators for wild horses.
There are over 200 bones in the horse skeleton, which is masterfully designed to run for distances and carry at least one human.
Horses have been domesticated shortly after man came off the Ark over 4,000 years ago and domesticated horses have a lifespan of about 25 years, but some have lived over 60 years. Historical evidence points toward human use of horses as early as 2,000 B.C., which corresponds with the creation model.
Horses are plant eaters (herbivores) and have large eyes, larger than any land mammal.
An interesting design feature of the horse is its eyes, which are located on the side of its head, allowing the horse to see in almost any direction. This wide range of vision allows the horse to be more aware of its surroundings and helps it to survive. While transporting humans, horse eyes allow for greater vision range.
Evolutionists have difficulty explaining the lineage of the horse over their claimed timeline of 50 million years, but their proposed ancestors are simply smaller horse types that exist today. Creationists do not believe that horses originated in North America, as evolutionists believe, but rather their ancestors came from the Mount Ararat region after the global Flood and spread throughout the world some 4,500 years ago.
While there are other hooved animals, the origin of these animals is a mystery as they appear suddenly in the fossil record like many other animal types.
Horse variations include the pony, zebra, and the donkey, which are smaller varieties classified under the genus Equus.
Variations in size of horses occur because of genetics, including dominant and recessive genes, but genetic information is stored inside the animal's DNA from the beginning of creation.
Breeding different sizes of horse types together can produce variations over generations as observed within human history.
As larger horse types are bred together, larger sizes become dominant and the size of the horse has increased over human history.
Horses were likely introduced to the Americas by European explorers, complying with the creation model of the spread of life from Mount Ararat in all directions. Spanish horses were brought to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in the late 15th century, as early as his second voyage in 1493. Evidence also indicates that the Vikings also introduced horses around the world.
by Owen Borville
August 23, 2020
Biology
The Horse is one of the most useful animals to mankind and its bodily features and abilities are a testament to an Intelligent Designer who had the animal and humans in mind.
Distinguishing features of the horse are its streamlined and athletic body, slender legs, and its hooved feet, along with its characteristic mane, long neck, and tail. The athletic ability of the wild horse allows it to escape predators and allows domesticated horses to be useful to humans for riding and pulling things. For years of human history, the horse was the only reliable transportation.
Horses can stand up to 6 feet tall, 8 feet long, and weigh up to 2,000 pounds, although some weigh less than 1,000 pounds.
Horses can run up to 30 miles per hour. Some racehorses have produced speeds over 40 miles per hour and the fastest sprint is recorded at 55 miles per hour.
In addition to its heart that pumps blood, the horse has four extra pumps in its hoofs that pump blood back to the heart.
One of the most unique abilities of the horse is the ability to run shortly after birth. The fact that horses are born fully formed and can run so soon after birth is a miracle and could only be the product of design and creation.
Horses can also sleep by lying down and by standing up. The ability to sleep while standing up helps in escaping predators for wild horses.
There are over 200 bones in the horse skeleton, which is masterfully designed to run for distances and carry at least one human.
Horses have been domesticated shortly after man came off the Ark over 4,000 years ago and domesticated horses have a lifespan of about 25 years, but some have lived over 60 years. Historical evidence points toward human use of horses as early as 2,000 B.C., which corresponds with the creation model.
Horses are plant eaters (herbivores) and have large eyes, larger than any land mammal.
An interesting design feature of the horse is its eyes, which are located on the side of its head, allowing the horse to see in almost any direction. This wide range of vision allows the horse to be more aware of its surroundings and helps it to survive. While transporting humans, horse eyes allow for greater vision range.
Evolutionists have difficulty explaining the lineage of the horse over their claimed timeline of 50 million years, but their proposed ancestors are simply smaller horse types that exist today. Creationists do not believe that horses originated in North America, as evolutionists believe, but rather their ancestors came from the Mount Ararat region after the global Flood and spread throughout the world some 4,500 years ago.
While there are other hooved animals, the origin of these animals is a mystery as they appear suddenly in the fossil record like many other animal types.
Horse variations include the pony, zebra, and the donkey, which are smaller varieties classified under the genus Equus.
Variations in size of horses occur because of genetics, including dominant and recessive genes, but genetic information is stored inside the animal's DNA from the beginning of creation.
Breeding different sizes of horse types together can produce variations over generations as observed within human history.
As larger horse types are bred together, larger sizes become dominant and the size of the horse has increased over human history.
Horses were likely introduced to the Americas by European explorers, complying with the creation model of the spread of life from Mount Ararat in all directions. Spanish horses were brought to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in the late 15th century, as early as his second voyage in 1493. Evidence also indicates that the Vikings also introduced horses around the world.