Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
By studying ontogeny (the micro development of embryos), scientists can learn about the evolutionary history of organisms. Ancestral characters are often, but not always, preserved in an organism’s development. For example, both chick and human embryos go through a stage where they have slits and arches in their necks that are identical to the gill slits and gill arches of fish. This observation supports the idea that chicks and humans share a common ancestor with fish. Thus, developmental characters, along with other lines of evidence, can be used for constructing phylogenies (the macro evolutionary history of a kind of organism).
Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny
Haeckel’s embryonic thing
The reflections of life
Micro and macro stages of change
Placenta fertilization
It's the origins of growth
Recapitulation of the species
DNA manifest and begins to takes hold
Fish gills - Reptilian
Mammalian hair
The development of consciousness
Would evolve us to contemplate and care
This micro macro theory has been rejected
The Haeckel proposal denied
But to believe the earth is 6,000 year old
Is to ignore Einstein's theory of relativity, space and time
So, when people say “it's just a theory”
It becomes very clear to see
If you don't understand the scientific method
How will you ever understand the reality?
Some of the scientific principles
Maybe hard to accept
But when you're not interested or dismiss the facts
It's the beginning of an intellectual death
I'm not saying that faith and beliefs aren't important
Culture and curiosity provides the way
But to ignore scientific information
Is a choice to remain ignorant in modernity today
Darwinian evolution
The most incredible creation story unfolds
It reveals the language of God - science
Now the true beauty of life is told
Copyright © Kelly Hitchcock | Year Posted 2017
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