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phylogeny into a crisis. 178
“Molecular phylogeny” is facing a crisis—which means that the the-
ory of evolution also faces a crisis. (Phylogeny refers to the so-called “fam-
ily relationships” among various living things and is the hypothetical basis
of the theory of evolution.) Once again, science undermines the thesis that
living things evolved from one another, demonstrating that all living
groups were created separately.
The Myth of Embryological Recapitulation
What used to be called the "recapitulation theory" has long been elim-
inated from scientific literature, but it is still being presented as a scientific
reality by some evolutionist publications. The term "recapitulation" is a
condensation of the dictum "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", put for-
ward by the evolutionist biologist Ernst Haeckel at the end of the 19th cen-
tury.
This theory of Haeckel's postulates that living embryos re-experience
the evolutionary process that their pseudo-ancestors underwent. He theo-
rised that during its development in its mother's womb, the human em-
bryo first displayed the characteristics of a fish,
and then those of a reptile, and finally those of a
human.
It has since been proven that this theory is
completely bogus. It is now known that the "gills"
that supposedly appear in the early stages of the
human embryo are in fact the initial phases of the
middle-ear canal, parathyroid, and thymus. The
part of the embryo that was likened to the "egg
yolk pouch" turns out to be a pouch that produces
blood for the infant. The part that had been identi-
fied as a "tail" by Haeckel and his followers is in
fact the backbone, which resembles a tail only be-
Haeckel was an evolutionist
cause it takes shape before the legs do.
even more ardent than Dar-
These are universally acknowledged facts in win in many respects. For
the scientific world, and are accepted even by this reason, he did not hesi-
tate to distort the scientific
evolutionists themselves. George Gaylord Simp-
data and devise various
son, one of the founders of neo-Darwinism, forgeries.
writes:
