Creation vs Evolution (Part 4)

Sorry for being a day late! Got sick with something and didn't feel well enough to post yesterday. But here's the post. Hope you enjoy!

The Debate About Embryology

Embryology is the study of how living things develop before being born or hatched. The evolutionists claim that the embryos of different species are similar during the earliest stages of development, and they support their claim with a drawing made by evolutionist Ernst Haeckle. They also claim that this similarity between embryos of different species points to a common ancestor. Another claim is that the embryos show what the embryo of the common ancestor looked like. The evolutionists say that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, meaning the development of an embryo repeats the evolutionary history of the species. They call this idea the “Law of Biogenesis.”

However, opponents of evolution point to the fact that there are many photos to prove that the embryos of different species look different during the earliest stages of development. They also see multiple problems with the evolutionists' drawing. One problem is that it leaves out the earliest stages of the embryo development, which, according to the evolutionists, is the stage at which the embryos are most similar. Another problem is that Haeckle made the embryos in the drawing look more similar than they really are. Opponents of evolution conclude that the evolutionists do not have any evidence from embryology to support their theory.