Just how warm do you think Mongolia is?
Average temperatures over most of the country are below freezing from November through March and are about freezing in April and October. January and February averages of -20° C are common, with winter nights of -40° C occurring most years. Summer extremes reach as high as 38° C in the southern Gobi region and 33° C in Ulaanbaatar. More than half the country is covered by permafrost, which makes construction, road building, and mining difficult. All rivers and freshwater lakes freeze over in the winter, and smaller streams commonly freeze to the bottom. Ulaanbaatar lies at 1,351 meters above sea level in the valley of the Tuul Gol, a river. Located in the relatively well-watered north, it receives an annual average of 31 centimeters of precipitation, almost all of which falls in July and in August. Ulaanbaatar has an average annual temperature of -2.9°C and a frost-free period extending on the average from mid-June to late August.
www.countrystudies.us/mongolia/34.htm
Mongolia is fairly warm/hot in the summer, and rather cold in winter. But you’ve sidestepped my point.
These “scientists” make a big deal over these ponies becoming acclimated to the cold weather over 800 years. When it’s fairly obvious that if they hadn’t adapted in their first winter in the extreme cold, they’d all have died, and we’d be refering to them in the past tense.
Evolution, schmevolution! It’s adaptation, and God’s creatures do it all the time. They were created that way.