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To: CobaltBlue
You're kidding, right? You can still find Haeckle's woodcuts in some biology books used in today's classrooms. They were typically shown in texts in the 1950-80s, and my niece had them in her biology textbook as late as the year 2000.

That's my point. Even though everyone knew these were fakes, they continued to be shown in texts as "proof" of evolution. But when people protest, they're portrayed as crazed, toothless, irrational Bible thumpers. That's intellectually dishonest. The same thing happened with the moths. You can still find thoses photos in relatively recent textbooks today.

As you can clearly see from my post, in addition to these two issues, I've also mentioned issues about DNA, taller kids being portrayed as proof of evolution, mismatched bones being portrayed as "missing links", and the impossibility of Carl Sagan's timelessness of the universe in light of the Big Bang theory.

Yet you've ridiculed me for "only" bringing up the old moth and woodprint issues.

And despite your put-down, you haven't explained why we're still seeing these photos today. Would you agree that they should be taken out of all newly printed textbooks, or do you think they should stay in? Do you think textbooks should be updated when purported evidence of evolution is later shown to be erroneous?
35 posted on 09/12/2003 3:54:30 PM PDT by keats5 (And don't you dare correct my spelling!)
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To: keats5
You're a Christian, so I expect you to tell the truth. You never had any "faith" in evolution to begin with, right?

Thus, you never had any "faith" to lose, isn't that right?

What I scoff at is the nimby-pimby skirt-twisting pretension that you ever were led astray by evolution. You weren't, so why pretend?
36 posted on 09/12/2003 4:24:53 PM PDT by CobaltBlue (Never voted for a Democrat in my life.)
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