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I don't have to find a school because my school uses Haeckel's drawings hence my reasoning in creating a thread dedicated to the topic of Haeckel's drawings. Theres your answer.
My answer? You're the one asking the question! Why don't you ask your school why they use Haeckel's drawings?
Seriously, you're telling us that you opened a topic on
Why do schools use Haeckel's drawings, you give nothing but some cut and pasted quotes and a list of textbooks, and it takes you 37 posts before you say that
your school uses them! I think readers could be forgiven for being extremely skeptical of your good faith or your claim. However, I like to think the best of people, so I'll assume for now you were just being a little naive and I'll assume for now you are telling the truth about your school. I am sure you can forgive me these little assumptions.
Now, if you asked your original question in good faith - Why are Haeckel's drawings being taught in school - why not ask
your school rather than us? After all, It would appear that you are in the best position of anyone on this forum to ascertain the answer. Having asked, you can come back to the forum with some really interesting and original information rather than a boring old cut and paste job from a creationist website which many of us have seen and discussed dozens of times.
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1. Just because you didn't use one part of a textbook doesn't mean that someone else didn't.
Indeed, and nothing in my post suggested otherwise.
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2. No i did not make any assumption that a school uses an entire textbook. Nor does the school have to mention anything about Haeckel's drawings. If the textbook contains them. a student can find them when he or she is using the textbook as study material.
But then the school is not
teaching the drawings, is it? I'm still not sure what that means, but it seems to make sense to you, so I suppose I can continue with it.
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3. Don't jump to conclusions and make up liable comments.
What conclusions? What is a
liable comment? Perhaps you mean
libellous? I fail to see how my comments could be construed as libellous.
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4. I question your assumption of my assumption that i did not make.
You claimed that schools teach Haeckel's drawings - the only evidence you presented was a list of textbooks. From the evidence you presented, the implication was that you assumed that being in a textbook equates to being taught.
Obviously, I made the wrong assumption - I would better have assumed you hadn't presented a reasoned argument from evidence! How am I to know if you miss out information relevant to your chain of thought?
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I question your assumption that it is difficult for me to find a school to back my claims. Once again you have made accusations and made liable comments in an attempt to create defamation of my character.
In what way did I attempt to defame you? I suggested you had difficulty finding a school that taught evolution - a quite reasonable suggestion under the circumstances as at that point you had failed to produce one. Now that a
deus ex machina in the form of
your school has appeared to rescue your argument, I naturally am very pleased, and look forward to hearing what they have to say, and seeing the discussion proceed with direct information from the coalface of education, rather than secondhand cut and paste quotes from partisan websites.
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Oh and the teacher that used Haeckel's drawings as evidence of evolution was fresh out of teacher's college. I know she knows that Haeckel's drawings were false which leaves me to wonder why she would use fradulent material to teach evolution.
Why wonder? Why not ask her? Why not ask the Principal if the school authorities are aware that teachers are knowingly using fraudulent material.
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Note: forgive my lateness in reply. I will try to find time in between weeks to answer your questions. I look forward to the upcoming "conversation."
No problem. Good luck at school.
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