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Homology and Embryology Questions and Answers

Key articles

• Homology made simple
• What about similarities and other such arguments for evolution? (from Creation Answers Book)
• Argument: common design points to common ancestry (from Refuting Evolution 2)
• Does homology provide evidence of evolutionary naturalism?
• Embryonic Fraud Rediscovered

Are the similarities between living things evidence for common ancestry or common design?

• Saddle up the horse, it’s off to the bat cave
• Are look-alikes related?
• A serious problem for homology
• An illusion of common descent
• Could the mammalian middle ear have evolved … twice?
• Did eyes evolve by Darwinian mechanisms?
• Tiktaalik roseae—a fishy ‘missing link’
• Mammal-like reptiles: major trait reversals and discontinuities
• Walking whales, nested hierarchies, and chimeras: do they exist?

Are early embryos very similar? Do they recapitulate evolutionary history?

• The ‘fish gills’ girl
• Ernst Haeckel: Evangelist for Evolution and Apostle of Deceit
• A fishy story
• The human umbilical vesicle (‘yolk sac’) and pronephros—Are they vestigial?
• Countering revisionism—part 1: Ernst Haeckel, fraud is proven

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• Anthropology (for ape and human DNA similarity)
• Fossils Q&A (for living fossils)