A Horse, a Horse, My Kingdom for a Horse

In that day,” says the LORD, “I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

(Zechariah 12:4) NKJV

Something that we find interesting is: people who profess to be scientifically knowledgeable have hissy fits when they’re told that evolution is the process of genetic decay.

It is a knee-jerk reaction, because when you start to lead them through the reasoning they seem to vanish like smoke and their Twitter posts disappear…

Let’s take the horse analogy that we used in describing how evolution solves a space problem on Noah’s ark. There were two horses on Noah’s ark. We have to assume that they were the best examples available since God selected them. They contained a complete genome which contained genetic variability capable of being expressed in a wide variety of phenotypes.

The offspring of these horses split up into herds, wandered off in different directions across the face of the Earth and began having progeny. The progeny were faced with having to deal with predators, which was a new thing since the flood, and so in each group the ones less adapted to survive in their habitat were picked off. The remaining individuals in each population began having offspring which had the same advantageous trait that had allowed them to survive.

A population that migrated to what would be the African continent, for example, had stripes which helped it to blend in with the Savannah habitat. This became the Zebra. This is a smaller niche-specific subset of the variability that was in the Noah’s ark ancestors. The result was a species which was better adapted to a specific environment, but less variable overall. Genetic information had been lost.

There are at least 7 species in genus Equus (horses) each is adapted to a particular environment, and each is sufficiently different from the others as to be no longer able to interbreed with them. This is an example of genetic drift and speciation. This is an extensively documented process. You can try to parse it out as either micro or macro evolution but there’s no point. Evolution is real, it’s how the world works.

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