Daniel Dennett:Daniel Dennett:

Concerning Parents Who Teach Their ChildrenConcerning Parents Who Teach Their ChildrenSomething Other Than Evolution:Something Other Than Evolution:

““Those of us who have freedom of speech willThose of us who have freedom of speech willfeel free to describe your teachings as thefeel free to describe your teachings as thespreading of falsehoods, and will attempt tospreading of falsehoods, and will attempt todemonstrate this to your children at ourdemonstrate this to your children at ourearliest opportunity.earliest opportunity.””

DarwinDarwin’’s Dangerous Ideas Dangerous Idea (1995), (New York: Simon and Schuster),(1995), (New York: Simon and Schuster),p. 519.p. 519.

Peppered moth (JW book andHolt Biol in suitcase use several)

Allyn and Bacon General Science 1989 p. 5

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“You have to look at the audience. How convoluteddo you want to make it for a first time learner?”

“The advantage of this example of natural selection isthat it is extremely visual.”

“We want to get across the idea of selectiveadaptation. Later on, they (high school students—KB) can look at the work critically.”

Bob Ritter, a Canadian text-book writer who knew the mothpictures were frauds but used them anyway. Quoted in the April 5,1999, Alberta Report Newsmagazine (See Icons of Evolution, byJonathan Wells, p. 156-157.

Earnst Haeckel saidthe turning point

EarnstHaeckel saidthe turningpoint in his

thinking waswhen he read

CharlesDarwin’sOrigin of

Species in1860.

Creation March-May 1996 p. 33

Haeckel’s series of fakedrawings, 1874

Haeckel’s drawings, 1874Creation ex nihilo Mar-May 1998 p. 51

Haeckel’s vs photos of real

Actual photos on bottom.Creation ex Nihilo Mar-May 1998 p.51

Haeckel’s drawings on top.

Haeckel’s in 1998 book at UWF

Haeckel’s fakedrawings still used in1999 at UWF!Evolutionary Analysis 1998 p. 28

Stephen Jay GouldStephen Jay Gould

Haeckel remains most famous today as the chief architectHaeckel remains most famous today as the chief architectand propagandist for a famous argument that scienceand propagandist for a famous argument that sciencedisproved long ago but that popular culture has never fullydisproved long ago but that popular culture has never fullyabandoned, if only because the standard description soundsabandoned, if only because the standard description soundsso wonderfully arcane and mellifluous:so wonderfully arcane and mellifluous: ““ontogenyontogenyrecapitulates phylogeny,recapitulates phylogeny,”” otherwise known as the theoryotherwise known as the theoryrecapitulation or, roughly, the claim that organisms retracerecapitulation or, roughly, the claim that organisms retracetheir evolutionary history (ortheir evolutionary history (or ““climb their own familyclimb their own familytree,tree,”” to cite an old catchphrase) during theirto cite an old catchphrase) during theirembryological development.embryological development.

(2000,(2000, ““Abscheulich! (Atrocious),Abscheulich! (Atrocious),”” Natural HistoryNatural History, vol. 109,, vol. 109,no. 2, pg. 44).no. 2, pg. 44).

““We should therefore not be surprised thatWe should therefore not be surprised thatHaeckelHaeckel’’s drawings entered nineteenths drawings entered nineteenth--century textbooks.century textbooks. But we do, I think, haveBut we do, I think, havethe right to be both astonished andthe right to be both astonished andashamed by the century of mindlessashamed by the century of mindlessrecyclingrecycling that has led to the persistence ofthat has led to the persistence ofthese drawings in a large number, if notthese drawings in a large number, if notmajority, of modern textbooksmajority, of modern textbooks”” (p. 45, emp.(p. 45, emp.added).added).

Alton Biggs, Chris Kapicka &Linda Lundgren (Westerville,OH: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill,1998

South Huntington School District:Honors Biology

Huntington Station, New York

1999 Texas Board of Education adoptedbook as Biology Textbook

Biology 110—University ofTennessee in Martin

Biology 101—CentralMichigan University

Heribert NilssonHeribert Nilsson

The family tree of the horse is beautiful and continuousThe family tree of the horse is beautiful and continuousonly in the textbooksonly in the textbooks…….The construction of the horse is.The construction of the horse istherefore a very artificial one, since it is put together fromtherefore a very artificial one, since it is put together fromnonnon--equivalent parts, and cannot therefore be a continuousequivalent parts, and cannot therefore be a continuoustransformation seriestransformation series

(1954,(1954, Synthetische ArtbildungSynthetische Artbildung (Lund, Sweden: Vertag(Lund, Sweden: VertagCWE Gleenrup),CWE Gleenrup), pp. 551pp. 551--552, emp. added).552, emp. added).

““The uniform, continuous transformation ofThe uniform, continuous transformation ofHyracotheriumHyracotherium intointo EquusEquus, so dear to the, so dear to thehearts of generations of textbook writers,hearts of generations of textbook writers,never happened in nature.never happened in nature.””

(George Gaylord Simpson,(George Gaylord Simpson, Life of the PastLife of the Past (New(NewHaven, CT: Yale University Press), 1953, p. 125,Haven, CT: Yale University Press), 1953, p. 125,emp. added)emp. added)

Stephen Jay GouldStephen Jay Gould“Once ensconced in textbooks, misinformationOnce ensconced in textbooks, misinformationbecomes cocooned and effectively permanent,becomes cocooned and effectively permanent,because, as stated above, textbooks copy frombecause, as stated above, textbooks copy fromprevious texts. (I have written two essays on thisprevious texts. (I have written two essays on thislamentable practice:lamentable practice: one on the amusingly perennialone on the amusingly perennialdescription of the eohippusdescription of the eohippus, or, or ““dawn horse,dawn horse,”” as theas thesize of a fox terrier, even though most authors,size of a fox terrier, even though most authors,including yours truly, have no idea of the dimensionsincluding yours truly, have no idea of the dimensionsor appearance of this breed.)or appearance of this breed.)””

(2000,(2000, ““Abscheulich! (Atrocious),Abscheulich! (Atrocious),”” Natural HistoryNatural History, vol., vol.109, no. 2, pg. 45).109, no. 2, pg. 45).

Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba

Researchers, “haven’t collected enough bones to reconstructwith precision what kadabba looked like” (p. 57).

Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba“In all, the team eventually found 11 specimens—from at leastfive different individuals—in a cluster of sites” (p.56)

Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba

THIS TOEBONE

PROVESTHE

CREATUREWALKED

ONTWO LEGS

[Michael D. Lemonick and Andrea Dorfman, “One Giant Step for Mankind,”Time, 158[3]:54-61, July 23, 2001, toe bone picture (with text) is from p. 59]

Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba

“…not only is it (the toe bone) separated intime by several hundred thousand years, butit was also found some 10 miles away fromthe rest.”

[Michael D. Lemonick and Andrea Dorfman, “One Giant Step for Mankind,”Time, 158[3]:54-61, July 23, 2001, p. 61]

Piltdown Man

This fossil find wasproposed to be the

“missing link” betweenhumans and apes.

Forty years later scientistsdiscovered that the fossilhad been “reconstructed”

using the skull from ahuman and the jawbone of

an orangutan.

Nebraska ManFrom a single fossilized tooth, anentire species was manufactured.

The only problem was—the tooth was later

identified as a tooth froman extinct pig!

Orce ManA single skull bone wasfound near the village ofOrce in Spain. Based onthis one bone, some over

eager scientists took artisticfreedom and reconstructed

an entire man.Later, to the embarrassment ofmany, the bone was correctly

identified as being the skull capbelonging to a six-month olddonkey! (see D. Gish, The

Amazing Story of Creation, p. 82)

Neanderthal Man

At the International Congress ofZoology (1958), Dr. A.J.E. Cave saidthat his examination of the famous

Neanderthal skeleton found in Franceover 50 years ago proved that it wassimply an old man who suffered

from arthritis!

Probably the most wellknown “missing link”

between humans and apes

Flipper Man

A single “collar bone” wasfound in the Libyan Desert in1979. This fossil was dated(based on the estimates ofsome fossil marine planktonnearby) at 5 million yearsold! The “shape” of this“collar bone” indicated thiscreature walked upright.

However, this “collar bone” was laterdetermined to be a rib bone. And not

even a human rib bone at that.

Colin Patterson(Senior Paleontologist, British Museum)

“I think always before in my life when I’ve gotup to speak on a subject I’ve been confidentof one thing that I know more about it thananybody in the room, because I’ve worked onit. Well, this time it isn’t true. I’m speaking ontwo subjects, evolutionism and creationism,and I believe it’s true to say that I knownothing whatever about either of them.”

Colin Patterson(Senior Paleontologist, British Museum)

“One of the reasons I started taking thisanti-evolutionary view, or lets call it anon-evolutionary view, was that last year I hada sudden realization. For over twenty years Ihad thought I was working on evolution insome way. One morning I woke up andsomething had happened in the night, and itstruck me that I had been working on this stufffor more than twenty years, and there was noone thing I knew about it.”

Colin Patterson, cont.

“It’s quite a shock to learn that one can be misledfor so long. Either there was something wrong withme or there was something wrong withevolutionary theory. Naturally, I know there isnothing wrong with me, so for the last few weeksI’ve tried putting a simple question to variouspeople and groups. Question is: Can you tell meanything you know about evolution? Any onething, any one thing that is true?”

(Quoted in Tom Bethell, “Agnostic Evolutionists,” Harper’s,February, 1985, p. 50)