To: Full Court
"They are used. "2002 believe it or not Haeckels 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,..."
Curious. I have Futuyma's book on my lap right now. Would you care to cite a page?
Instead I read "But by the end of the 19th century, it was already clear that the law [Haeckel's "law"] rather seldom holds."
The only drawings are von Baer's and they purport something very different.
559 posted on
12/17/2005 5:33:28 PM PST by
furball4paws
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
Should have pinged you, too.
566 posted on
12/17/2005 5:38:07 PM PST by
furball4paws
(The new elixir of life - dehydrated toad urine.)
To: furball4paws; Full Court
What it amounts too is the creationists here are not capable of distinguishing Haeckel from Heckel and Jeckel, let alone von Baer.
606 posted on
12/17/2005 6:00:26 PM PST by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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