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I'm gonna catch that horse if I can...

Two young Nokota mares. Image: Wikipedia.

1 posted on 04/29/2012 5:53:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

I wish I could believe stuff that the popular science folks put out, but I have become very skeptical after all the BS they have tried to sell us for the last few years.

3 posted on 04/29/2012 5:57:26 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)

4 posted on 04/29/2012 5:58:33 PM PDT by BCR #226 (02/07 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)

Such magnificent creatures! Dogs also. etc..etc...

God gave us a world too wonderful to really comprehend so most of us take it for granted

5 posted on 04/29/2012 6:00:44 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 wasn't an election - it was a coup d'etat.)

Creationist view: Noah built an ark, helps animals survive The Flood. After the flood, the animals from the ark re-populate the Earth.

Scientist view: That is such poppycock! Such nonsense! Now, see, what happened was, there was this one horse, see, and it reproduced, and then the Earth eventually had lots and lots of horses. Now, THAT'S science! Totally different from that fairy tale stuff!

7 posted on 04/29/2012 6:08:46 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)

Do any of the eggheads or science experts know how they date this discovery?

11 posted on 04/29/2012 6:52:23 PM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. II Corinthians 3:17)

13 posted on 04/29/2012 7:02:21 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo

MtDNA tests trace all modern horses back to single ancestor 140,000 years ago

No. It has to be a married one!

Thank You, I'm here all week.

14 posted on 04/29/2012 7:05:51 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole)

Horses allowed early people to hunt for faster prey, to wander farther than before and to create much bigger farms due to pulling plows.

The notion that horses had something to do with the evolution of humans is idiotic.

Horse riding didn't start till at the earliest 4000 BC or so, long after modern humans were fully developed. Early horses were too small to carry a full grown man for long.

Early horses could not pull heavy loads such as a large wagon or a plow. The harnesses used choked the horse, so for such purposes oxen were used instead.

Efficient horse harness for draft purposes evolved in China from about 1 AD to 500 and didn't reach Europe till about 1000.

And horses for use in plowing didn't take off in Europe till early modern times, when the Chinese (again) invention of the moldboard plow finally got there. It allowed a single horse to pull (using the collar harness) a plow.

Previous plowing methods in the heavy soils of north Europe required teams of multiple oxen, which necessitated the manorial or communal organization of farming.

16 posted on 04/29/2012 7:15:54 PM PDT by Sherman Logan

Horses?

meh

I prefer donkeys...gigantenormous shaggy donkeys

http://www.theequinest.com/images/poitu-donkey.jpg

17 posted on 04/29/2012 7:23:53 PM PDT by mamelukesabre

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