Haeckle's Embryonic Gill-Slit Claim
May 25, 2022 15:58:05 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on May 25, 2022 15:58:05 GMT -5
Haeckle's Embryonic-Gill-Slit Claim
First, why is this important for Christians? Well, it is important because it is calling the writers of the Bible liars. It is also calling Jesus the Son of God a liar since he referred to the Genesis account as historical fact. In short, if indeed we all came from fish, then there is no basis for belief in the biblical teaching concerning the fall and redemption since it would all be based on a lie.
Just recently, I encountered someone on the Internet claiming that our ancestors were fish at one point in the supposed evolutionary process. When I responded that such a claim sounds unbelievable, he responded by offering up Haecklé Recapitulation process during the human development stage. According to him, humans and all other mammals, undergo the sequence of evolutionary steps that finally led to our human form in the womb.
Now, I had researched this claim previously and had found that the scientist who made such a claim had been dishonest via tampering with the embryo photos. I had also previously learned that the so-called gill-slits have absolutely nothing to do with gills or respiration. Below is and explanation concerning this claim and a link to another article post concerning the same subject.
Haeckle's Embryonic-Gill-Slit Claim
As an embryo begins to develop its three dimensional structure and its body organs start to form the tissue between the head and torso starts to grow around and as it does this it forms a series of ridges and hollows. For a brief time (28 days to 44 days) the grooves between the ridges have a superficial resemblance to slits when viewed from the outside.
However, as the Web of Life textbook admitted, they do not form holes that penetrate from the inside to the outside as gills in a fish do. Neither do they ever develop any of the structure of a fish gill. The correct name for the series of ridges and grooves is “pharyngeal arches and clefts” and they develop into parts of the face and the throat region, including the jaws, chewing muscles and larynx (voicebox).
The only groove that remains as an indentation is the one closest to the head end of the embryo. It forms the external earhole. The others are incorporated into the structures of the face and neck. What we call *gill slits* are, in fact, Pharyngeal "pouches". It appears to superficially resemble fish gills, nut does not in fact have anything to do with any form of respiration!
Rather than having anything to do with vestigial apparatus for breathing or respiration, the pharyngeal "pouches" develop into parts of the face, neck, and important glands! " In man and other mammals, these arches and pouches develop into part of the face, muscles of mastication and facial expression, bones of the middle ear, and endocrine glands. MEANWHILE, the embryo's lungs develop quite independently of these gill slits.
byjus.com/question-answer/do-humans-have-gill-slits-in-embryonic-stage-if-they-have-gill-slits-what-does/
apologeticspress.org/gill-slits-embryos-and-false-evidence-for-evolution-4055/