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Evolution fraud in current biology textbooks
Exposed as fakes decades ago, major publishers still include them
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One of the most popular and familiar pieces of evidence used to bolster the
theory of evolution â reproduced for decades in most high school and college
biology textbooks â is fraudulent, and has been known to be fraudulent for
nearly 100 years.
Most people have seen those drawings of developing human embryos next to
developing animal embryos, and they look virtually indistinguishable. (The
Haeckel embryo sequence shown purported to show â left to right â a hog,
calf, rabbit and human). This has long been said to demonstrate that humans
share a common ancestry with these animals and thus prove the theory of
evolution.
These pictures were designed by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel. What few
people know â and one of many surprises in the evolution debate reported in
the current edition of WorldNet magazine â is that they were fakes. At Jena,
the university where he taught, Haeckel was charged with fraud by five
professors and convicted by a university court. His deceit was exposed in
Haeckelâs Frauds and Forgeries, a 1915 book by J. Assmuth and Ernest R.
Hull, who quoted 19 leading authorities of the day.
Ernst Haeckel
It clearly appears that Haeckel has in many cases freely invented embryos,
or reproduced the illustrations given by others in a substantially changed
form, said anatomist F. Keibel of Freiburg University. Zoologist L.
Rütimeyer of Basle University called his distorted drawings a sin against
scientific truthfulness.
Yet, despite Haeckelâs fraud conviction and early exposure, Western educators
continued using the pictures for decades as proof of the theory of evolution.
The matter was settled with finality by Dr. Michael Richardson, an
embryologist at St. Georgeâs Medical School in London. He found there was no
record that anyone ever actually checked Haeckelâs claims by systematically
comparing human and other fetuses during development. So Richardson assembled
a scientific team that did just that â photographing the growing embryos of
39 different species.
In a 1997 interview in The Times of London, Dr. Richardson stated: This is
one of the worst cases of scientific fraud. Itâs shocking to find that
somebody one thought was a great scientist was deliberately misleading. It
makes me angry. ... What he [Haeckel] did was to take a human embryo and copy
it, pretending that the salamander and the pig and all the others looked the
same at the same stage of development. They donât. ... These are fakes.
Today â believe it or not â Haeckelâs drawings still appear in many high
school and college textbooks. Among them are Evolutionary Biology by
Douglas J. Futuyma (Third Edition, Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, 1998),
and also the bedrock text, Molecular Biology of the Cell (third edition),
whose authors include biochemist Dr. Bruce Alberts, president of the National
Academy of Sciences.
Haeckelâs fraudulent drawings are just one of evolutionâs pillars now under
spectacular scientific assault. There are many others.
To experience WND's in-depth coverage of the raging debate between evolution
and intelligent design â a battle that increasingly includes outright
censorship â read the July edition of WorldNet magazine, WND's popular
monthly print publication.
The groundbreaking cover story is titled, EVOLUTION: The basis of all life,
or a fairy tale for scientists who reject God?
I promise you will be rocked by this issue of WorldNet, said Editor and CEO
Joseph Farah of the current edition on evolution. It's hard to see how any
reasonable person could not be profoundly affected by the material presented
here.
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