I couldn't help but notice the dates on these texts. Anything form, say, the last 15-20 years?bizzt wrote:Page 223 of the Lion Book (BIOLOGY - The Living Science) and page 283 of the Elephant Book (BIOLOGY by Miller and Levine)SLP wrote:When and where were you taught this?two_phat wrote:I remember being taught that the drawings were fact. And the text book that we used, although it didn't say it, it implied it. It was only till I did research later that I found that the drawings were nowhere near what is actually true.
Do you really mean 'nowhere near'?
Of course Haeckel embellished his drawings. But that does nto mean that the entire science of comparative embryology or the ToE is affected at all. Just another red herring.
What I am finding interesting is that amidst all these claims, nobody seems to be able to tell the name of the text, when or where this occurred.
*Edward O. Dodson, Evolution (1960), pp. 46-47;
*William Bloom and *Carl Krekeler, General Biology (1962), p. 442;
*Tracy Storer and *Robert Usinger, General Zoology (1965), p. 244; *Tracy Storer, *Robert Usinger, and *James Nybakken, Elements of Zoology (1968), p. 216;
*Claude Ville, *Warren Walker, Jr., and *Frederick Smith, General Zoology (1968), p. 677;
*Richard Leakey, Illustrated Origin (1971).
Which one do you have?
Or are you just cut-and-pasting some laundry liost form some creationist book or website?
I'm not sure why you would do that. Did you actually read the link?I'll even quote a Famous site that most Atheists will Quote
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/wells/haeckel.html
I would be glad to discuss the powerful evidence for evolution seen in comparative embryology. I must say, poor Jon Wells did not know the difference between a pharyngeal pouch and a pharyngeal arch just a few short years ago, so he is not really in a position to complain (I encountered hium through an intermediary on a discussion board a few years ago).
Plus there is his dishonest quoting in his book, but that is another story.