Episode 42: Why are Horse Fossils important to Creationists?

In this episode, Todd and Paul talk with Liberty University professor Tim Brophy about the horse created kind. They discuss twenty years of creation research on horse fossils, as well as the newest research from Dr. Brophy's lab that they hope to present at the 2023 International Conference on Creationism.

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Show notes:
Papers and Books mentioned in the Podcast

📕Get an introduction to the modern evolutionary perspective on horse fossils from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse

📕T.H. Huxley's view of horse evolution
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.207.4432.750

📕Dr. Wood's original research article from the 2003 ICC:
https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/icc_proceedings/vol5/iss1/11/

📕"It's a horse, of course! A creationist view of phylogenetic change in the equid family" by Paul Garner
https://www.biblicalcreation.org.uk/scientific_issues/bcs146.html

📕"Horse fossils and the nature of science" by Todd Wood
https://web.archive.org/web/20081009013057/https://answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v3/n4/horse-fossils

📕Students from Dr. Brophy’s lab abstract:
Gregory, J., K. Ray, M. Tallman, L. Ragan, and T.R. Brophy. 2022. New Baraminological Methods Confirm Monobaraminic Status of the Horses (Perissodactyla: Equidae) and Preliminary Analyses of New Datasets Suggest the Possibility of Discontinuity between Horses and Various Outgroup Taxa. Journal of Creation Theology and Science Series B: Life Sciences 12:5-6.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1200&context=bio_chem_fac_pubs

📕Garner, P. 2016. A further attempt to detect discontinuity surrounding the Equidae, using a new dataset. Journal of Creation Theology and Science Series B: Life Sciences 6:60. See page 2 of PDF file.
https://www.coresci.org/jcts/index.php/jctsb/article/view/53/73

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