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My son was born at 29 weeks. Wish I knew how to post a picture to show how perfect he was!! No evolution going on there!!

So he still looks the same now?

And why did Heckel fake those drawings ... ?

My guess, Haeckel was so in love with his proposed "law" as to suffer creationist levels of reality-fudging.

... My son was born at 29 weeks. Wish I knew how to post a picture to show how perfect he was!! No evolution going on there!! [Why] do school textbooks still use them?

Are these the same school textbooks that are "still using Piltdown Man and Nebraska Man?"

So, you really can't explain why a human baby is a human baby in the womb and stays a human in the womb and stays a human after he is born? It escapes your logic?

And you just can't answer why science textbooks still use the faked Haekel drawings?

<< ... My son was born at 29 weeks. Wish I knew how to post a picture to show how perfect he was!! No evolution going on there!! >>

I've seen your son. He is a monster :-)

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Jael: [Why] do school textbooks still use them?

Sisera: Are these the same school textbooks that are "still using Piltdown Man and Nebraska Man?"

In 2003 – believe it or not – Haeckel’s drawings still appear in many high school and college textbooks. Among them are:

"Evolutionary Biology", Douglas J. Futuyma (Third Edition, Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, 1998). Also in the bedrock text:

"Molecular Biology of the Cell" (third edition), whose authors include biochemist Dr. Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences.

They also appear in the popular:

"The Body and How it Works", 1992. The 1998 edition also uses Hackel's information.

Some texts which don’t use Haeckel’s forged drawings, still use his discredited theory. One of those is the current issue (1998) of the:

National Association of Science teacher’s guide, “Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science”. with Eugenie Scott on the committee.