Creation Moments

Jonathan Cotton: Horse teeth disprove evolutionary thinking. Learn about it next on today's Creation Moments. And now, here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: Bones can tell stories. An interesting story of man's relationship with a horse is told by the fossilized teeth of ancient horses. You see, domesticated horses have a habit called crib biting, biting the rails in their corral. Wild horses don't do this. Crib biting creates a specific wear pattern. So when scientists find horses' teeth that have this pattern, they know that it comes from a domesticated horse. At one time, it was believed that horses were first domesticated using inflated evolutionary years about 8,000 years ago. But several instances of horse teeth with the crib biting wear pattern have now turned up in much more ancient sites.

Man may have had a partnership with a horse for much longer than this. But we who believe the Bible are not surprised that the evolutionary description of man's relationship with the horse must be revised. In the book of Genesis, we read that during the famine in Egypt, when Joseph was administering Egypt's grain, he exchanged grain for livestock, including horses. Bible critics have long said that the horse was unknown in Egypt at Joseph's time. Proof, they said, that the Bible was full of mistakes. But now we know that it was the critics of the Bible who were wrong.

Man's relationship with the horse is much, much older than most people ever thought.

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