How do creationists explain: “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”??
var html_compressed = ‘ by iwnit ‘; document.write(html_compressed); var html_compressed = ‘ on December 10th, 2007 ‘; document.write(html_compressed); 1) “What creationists think on the relationship between ontogeny and phylogeny is necessarily irrelevant, since they do not believe in the second, and the claim that the similarities of ontogenies and phylogenies do not provide evidence for evolution is false, whether you believe in the theory or not.” Source: http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontogeny_recapitulates_phylogeny/Talk 2) “”Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” is a now discredited theory in biology first espoused in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel, who called it his “biogenetic law”. Ontogeny refers to the development of the embryos of a given species; phylogeny refers to the evolutionary history of a species. The theory, also called the theory of recapitulation, claims that the development of the embryo of every species repeats the evolutionary development of that species.” “Connectio
