Even before Darwin, biologists recognized that species that looked quite different as adults often had close similarities as developing embryos. Many four -- legged animals go through embryonic sta...
Even before Darwin, biologists recognized that species that looked quite different as adults often had close similarities as developing embryos. Many four -- legged animals go through embryonic stages that have similar features -- gill arches, a notochord, segmentation, and paddle-like limb buds -- as they develop into different adults. To Darwin, the embryonic resemblances were strong support for the theory of evolution.
One of Darwin's contemporaries, German biologist Ernst Haeckel, summed up the argument in a famous, pithy statement: "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." That is to say, in the process of development, an individual passes through the adult forms of all its ancestors. So, Haeckel proposed, by examining the development of an embryo you could read its entire evolutionary history in the transition from one stage to another. In fact, this isn't strictly true, and the drawings Haeckel made exaggerated the embryonic similarities between species.
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The problem is not their belief in their religious books, but their refusal to realize the world has changed on the past 2000 years. The knowledge that has been gained in those years as improved our understanding of the world. However, no new information has been added to their book.
The most disturbing thing is that they take their religious view on faith, not facts or evidence. Then use their hatred to 'destroy our world (the society that humans live in).'
@omiteru, oh really? So, are we to change the Word of God every so often to keep up wit new ideas and knowledge to satify man's futile thinking? The fact is we do not have 'common ancestor', but a common Creator. And the Bible is The Truth, and it remains Truth til the end.
People need to take Evolution theory by faith as well. Haeckel's embryos diagram was proved to be false yet many modern science books still print it as true. Before the Cambrian explosion, there were jellyfish, sponges, and worms. Then, bang! We see arthropods,echinoderms,chordat es. Mammals came later, but the chordates,the major groups to which they belong, were right there in the beginning of Cambrian, contrary to Darwin's tree of life.
Actually, they r still printin Haeckel's embryos diagram in tex books, some in color or some variation. But they still pass it as valid, even though many scientists take issue wit it. While understanding is susceptible to change, science( as pertaining to evolution) is passed off as factual, and the only truth that can be considered reasonable, n empirical. But evolution does take faith to believe somethin came out of nothing, non-living produced living creatures, all came from common ancestors.
Nothing can be gained by comparing different religious belief or deciding with religious doctrine is correct. It is the individuals choice what religious belief they have and they should be respected for that.
Science is an enterprise of discovery and understand the natural (material) world. The Cambrian explosion, embryos are all just one word in any book in the library of science.
Evolution is a science that is dependent on all sciences and itself.
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The most disturbing thing is that they take their religious view on faith, not facts or evidence. Then use their hatred to 'destroy our world (the society that humans live in).'
And I disagree that science of any kind needs faith. I believe it takes understanding...and understanding is susceptible to change...
Nothing can be gained by comparing different religious belief or deciding with religious doctrine is correct. It is the individuals choice what religious belief they have and they should be respected for that.
Science is an enterprise of discovery and understand the natural (material) world. The Cambrian explosion, embryos are all just one word in any book in the library of science.
Evolution is a science that is dependent on all sciences and itself.