Most people are familiar with the similarities in appearance between human embryos and embryos of other species.

It is proposed that the human embryo has gill slits like a fish and a tail like an animal. Interestingly, this is still being used as evolution propaganda. An advert from the courier mail said :- "after a million years man is still evolving while still retaining traces of his animal ancestors such as at the embryo stage, with the tail and gill slits like a fish."


Darwin had an ally called Ernst Hackle, who propounded this theory of biogenetic law, which said that the embryo re-enacts the history of its evolution. Haeckel falsified drawings and he faked photographs to give the evidence a 'nudge' for his law, and this supposed law dominated biology for many years. Science rejected this theory over fifty years ago and some books today still use this in support of evolution. That is the short crushing answer to this dishonest propaganda.

The so-called 'gill slits' are near the head of the human embryo. They are not slits at all. These are called visceral arches and they carry blood vessels, that is, ordinary blood vessels that take blood to the head and the back. When you were an embryo, if you had ever developed a gill slit you would have entered the world as a fish and nothing more than a fish...

In the embryo the budding legs need plenty of blood and they wouldn't get enough blood if they were not right at the end of the embryo body. Evolutionists point to the part of the noto-chord extending past the leg buds and call it a tail, despite the fact that science rejected this over forty years ago. The growing body absorbs the supposed tail except for the last four vertebrae. These fuse together to form the coccyx bone. The evolutionists will now call the coccyx a remnant tail that is a useless left over from our animal ancestors. The coccyx is anything but useless! The coccyx bone has a vital job. It is an anchor post onto which ligaments and muscles are joined. i.e. muscles which control the anus. The coccyx is of vital importance in the body's elimination mechanism.





It used to be popular to point to vestigial organs as evidence for evolution. For example, the coccyx, body hairs and, of course, the appendix, etc. Indeed, there was a list of about one hundred and eighty 'useless left-overs'. Man was seen to exhibit remnants of his animal ancestors. However, as medical and technical knowledge advances, nearly all of these supposed vestigial organs are gradually eliminated and have been found to be functional and even vital. The list of one hundred and eighty has been reduced to about half a dozen to date. Example - the thymus gland. This was called a useless vestigial organ until it was discovered that the thymus was the master gland protecting the body against infection. Despite this, vestigial organs are still used as evidence for evolution.

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