There are countless thousands of evidences for evolution from DNA sequencing which is extremely powerful evidence and it grows every day. Obviously the science deniers have no idea how much science they have to throw out to justify their magical fantasies.
This is also evidence for evolution, certainly not as strong as the evidence from DNA sequencing, but it is one of the millions of facts of biology that can only make sense if evolution is true.
The human fetus (and the whale fetus) is a hairy animal before it is born. The hair drops off before birth, or a few days after birth if it was a premature baby. What's that hair doing there? Isn't the 98.6 degrees womb warm enough? Obviously to every biologist and every sane educated person, this hair is a remnant of when our very hairy ancestors lived in trees. Our close cousins, the Chimpanzees, have the same thing when they are fetuses but it never drops off. Chimps are hairy.
I have repeatedly asked the science deniers to explain why their magician would magically put hair on human and whale fetuses. They are of course unable to answer the question, instead they make up some nonsense for why this hair is not a remnant of our ancestors. Lying and looking dumb is all the science deniers have. They could of course grow up and accept reality, but they will never do that because reality makes them cry. Their solution is to pretend magic is real, which shows how hopelessly childish, insane, and cowardly these people are.
Every biologist in the world completely agrees with this famous quote: "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."
I write all this stuff, by the way, to save it on my blog for future use. Writing it only for here would never accomplish anything because the science deniers have an incurable mental illness which unfortunately can't be fixed.
No problem, it's their wasted life, except the science deniers should not be allowed near children, and they most certainly must not be allowed to change science curriculums to accommodate their cowardly fantasies.
From Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne:
One of my favorite cases of embryological evidence for evolution is the furry human fetus. We are famously known as "naked apes" because, unlike other primates, we don't have a thick coat of hair. But in fact for one brief period we do--as embryos. Around sixth months after conception, we become completely covered with a fine, downy coat of hair called lanugo. Lanugo is usually shed about a month before birth, when it's replaced by the more sparsely distributed hair with which we're born. (Premature infants, however, are sometimes born with lanugo, which soon falls off.) Now, there's no need for a human embryo to have a transitory coat of hair. After all, it's a cozy 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit in the womb. Lanugo can be explained only as a remnant of our primate ancestry: fetal monkeys also develop a coat of hair at about the same stage of development. Their hair, however, doesn't fall out, but hangs on to become the adult coat. And, like humans, fetal whales also have lanugo, a remnant of when their ancestors lived on land.
From a science webite:
• Lanugo. This little-known developmental phenomenon is an important clue to our mammalian past. Lanugo is a coat of fine, downy hair that fetuses grow while in the womb, covering the entire body except for the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands. Typically, lanugo is shed by the seventh or eighth month of pregnancy, although premature infants may retain it for several weeks after birth. The question is why we grow it at all, and the theory of evolution can easily explain this as a vestigial characteristic retained from our furry ancestors.
One of my favorite cases of embryological evidence for evolution is the furry human fetus. We are famously known as "naked apes" because, unlike other primates, we don't have a thick coat of hair. But in fact for one brief period we do--as embryos. Around sixth months after conception, we become completely covered with a fine, downy coat of hair called lanugo. Lanugo is usually shed about a month before birth, when it's replaced by the more sparsely distributed hair with which we're born. (Premature infants, however, are sometimes born with lanugo, which soon falls off.) Now, there's no need for a human embryo to have a transitory coat of hair. After all, it's a cozy 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit in the womb. Lanugo can be explained only as a remnant of our primate ancestry: fetal monkeys also develop a coat of hair at about the same stage of development. Their hair, however, doesn't fall out, but hangs on to become the adult coat. And, like humans, fetal whales also have lanugo, a remnant of when their ancestors lived on land.
From a science webite:
• Lanugo. This little-known developmental phenomenon is an important clue to our mammalian past. Lanugo is a coat of fine, downy hair that fetuses grow while in the womb, covering the entire body except for the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands. Typically, lanugo is shed by the seventh or eighth month of pregnancy, although premature infants may retain it for several weeks after birth. The question is why we grow it at all, and the theory of evolution can easily explain this as a vestigial characteristic retained from our furry ancestors.
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