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To: Ichneumon
Nothing you've posted indicates that Haeckel's errors were the result of *conscious* fraud, as you emptily assert, versus possibility of the kind of *unconscious* fraud (i.e., believing your own incorrect presumptions) that creationists make so frequently.

*Cue the Bud*weiser music*

For all that you do, this quote's for you:

After this compromising confession of 'forgery' I should be obliged to consider myself condemned and annihilated if I had not the consolation of seeing side by side with me in the prisoner's dock hundreds of fellow - culprits, among them many of the most trusted observers and most esteemed biologists. The great majority of all the diagrams in the best biological textbooks, treatises and journals would incur in the same degree the charge of 'forgery,' for all of them are inexact, and are more or less doctored, schematised and constructed.

~Haeckel

Francis Hitching, The Neck of the Giraffe: Where Darwin Went Wrong, Ticknor and Fields, New York, 1982, p. 204

At least he took solace in the fact that his buddies were doing it too, so that made it okay. The culprit.

158 posted on 07/06/2005 11:50:13 AM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo (The best theory is not ipso facto a good theory. Lots of links on my homepage...)
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To: Michael_Michaelangelo
At least he took solace in the fact that his buddies were doing it too, so that made it okay. The culprit.

See my previous post. Your ability to completely misread the meaning of this quote is... astounding.

Your vitriol and your belief that evolutionary biology is just "lies, all lies", told by multiple generations of lying biologists, is nothing short of clinical paranoia. Seek help. I'm not kidding.

175 posted on 07/06/2005 2:20:48 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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