Re: [Phys-l] Another alternative theory horror

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

On 2011, Aug 30, , at 16:25, John Clement wrote:

> I would be fairly careful about mentioning the "gill stage".  This comes
> from the long discredited Haekel theory.  There are some similarities in
> structures in early embryonic development, but these similarities diverge
> with time.  See:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory
>
> Recapitulation theory is a hot button item with anti-evolutionists because
> Haekel "simplified" or "prettied" his pictures and they ignore differences
> between various species embryos.  These erroneous pictures have been used in
> many biology texts and anti-evolutionists claim that this discredits
> evolution.  But Darwin's view of embryonic development is closer to the
> modern view.  In either case Haekel's view is not really important to the
> modern evolutionary model.


coincidence.  I'm just at that section in "Corrupted Science" (John Grant).

Grant also claims that both Galileo and Newton did a bit of fudging.

bc

"Michael Richardson happened to notice that a particular diagram by Haeckel seemed curiously , well wrong."  




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