Do Embryos Show Evolution? Part 1 (CT Scan, Episode 50)

A classic argument for evolution says that different creatures have similar embryos and therefore share an evolutionary ancestor. 19th-century biologist, Ernst Haeckel, famously forged drawings making embryos appear more alike than they are and believed embryos re-enact evolution. While most scientists no longer believe this, textbooks still say embryo similarities show evolution in other ways. Let’s start examining these claims with the 7 Checks of Critical Thinking.

DIGGING DEEPER
• Mitchel, E. (2013). Recapitulation repackaged and reapplied: The rehabilitation of Haeckel’s image. https://answersingenesis.org/human-evolution/piltdown-man/recapitulation-repackaged-and-re-applied/
• Mitchel, T. & Mitchel, E. (2007). Something fishy about gill slits! https://answersingenesis.org/evidence-against-evolution/something-fishy-about-gill-slits/
• Parker, G (2006). Comparative Similarities: Homology. In Creation: Facts of Life: How Real Science Reveals the Hand of God. New Leaf Publishing Group. https://answersingenesis.org/biology/homology-comparative-similarities/
• Bergman, J (2001). “Does Homology Provide Evidence of Evolutionary Naturalism?” https://answersingenesis.org/theory-of-evolution/evidence/does-homology-provide-evidence-of-evolutionary-naturalism/

CITED REFERENCES
• Futuyama (2013). Patterns of evolution. In Evolution (3rd ed., pp. 631-632). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates (pp. 62-63).
• Brian Freeman, “The Myth of the ‘Biogenetic Law’,” The American Biology Teacher 63, no. 2 (2001): 84.
• Tommy Mitchell and Elizabeth Mitchell, “Something Fishy About Gill Slits!” (March 14, 2007), https://answersingenesis.org/evidence-against-evolution/something-fishy-about-gill-slits/.

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