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- From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Has Macro-evolution Occured?
- Message-ID: <1813@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 29 Jan 93 00:26:44 GMT
- References: <1jo29o$srt@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan23.233659.24533@microsoft.com> <1993Jan25.145853.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan25.145853.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, cotera@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan23.233659.24533@microsoft.com>, russpj@microsoft.com (Russ Paul-Jones) writes:
- |> > Human embryos develop gill-slits at an early stage, later to lose them.
- |>
- |> It's my understanding that evolutionists no longer view this as evidence for
- |> evolution.
-
- Well, you are wrong. What is passe is the naive interpretation of this as
- represented by the old phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny".
-
- One of the later points in Chris Colby's post on this subject has the modern
- formulation of this. (It is longer, and somewhat less memorable, but still
- pretty much accepted).
-
- That is it is no longer argued that the form of the gill slits in human embryos
- relates to the form of the gill slits in the adult ancestors of humans. But
- embryonic gill slits are taken as evidence that our ancestors had gill slits.
- [Gill slits are a rather idiotic way to make ears and a larynx - not to mention
- the silliness of having six, when only two or three are actually used - this
- is an example of the ad hocery in design that Chris Colby also mentions in
- his post].
-
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