chestnut on horses?

some people think that the chestnut on a horse is their "toe". to my understanding it is to protect the nerves when they lay. is there any other purpose for it.

They smell strongly "horsey," so they may be alarm-scent glands like in llamas. Or, the scent may have a role in mating. They may protect nerves when a horse lays down. They vary horse-to-horse, so they're like fingerprints. Some grow, some don't. They peel/shed off naturally. Evo's try to say they're leftovers on horse legs from the evo-past and were once toes. So what. That would only prove toes de-volved. Mutations from the Curse in Genesis 3 can explain that. Now if chestnuts proved how horses e-volved something in the rat-to-horse evo-story -- maybe they'd be onto something. But they aren't. Keep thinking. DrJ

for more info see: http://creation.com/what-about-horse-toe-evolution (excellent!)