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Author Topic:   ICANT'S position in the creation debate
mike the wiz
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Message 488 of 687 (523762)
09-12-2009 1:21 PM
Reply to: Message 486 by Rrhain
09-12-2009 2:59 AM


My original claim in which you responded to me, was this;
mike the wiz writes:
We have seen in the past how people like Haeckel formed his monera, and told us that a simple form led to present forms yet now we know that all life is complex, and that a cell is just as complex as our bodies.(His supposed gills are nevertheless in modern biological textbooks despite them being fake).
My claim is therefore that his drawings are in modern biological textbooks. To prove this I have to show this is so, as you assumed me a liar. Here is a quote from a source; We have to assume both scientists are therefore also liars.
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Contemporary Opposition to Haeckel: Michael Richardson and Stephen Jay Gould
Michael Richardson and his colleagues in an August 1997 issue of Anatomy & Embryology, shows that Haeckel fudges his drawings in order to exaggerate the similarity of the phylotypic stage. Richardson and his colleagues compare Haeckel’s embryos to photographs of actual embryos from all seven classes of vertebrates and find that Haeckel’s drawings clearly misrepresent the truth.[37] As well, Richardon notes that vertebrate embryos vary significantly in size and in the number of somites. In a March 2000 issue of Natural History, Stephen Jay Gould argues that Haeckel ‘exaggerated the similarities by idealizations and omissions.’ As well, Gould argues that Haeckel’s drawings are simply inaccurate and falsified. Despite the outright criticisms and denunciations of Haeckel’s drawings of embryological development, some version of Haeckel’s drawings can be found in modern biology textbooks. Gould ultimately argues that one has the right to be ‘both astonished and ashamed by the century of mindless recycling that has led to the persistence of these drawings in a large number, if not a majority, of modern textbooks.’"
Any "other" subjects or ideas about what I am saying, I do not need to defend.
If I said, "pies are tastey", and you thought I was saying; "pies are animals", would you expect me to now prove pies are animals?
Infact, I wasn't lying. My claim is true, Haeckel's fraudulent misleading drawings are in modern biology books, which is all I claimed.

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mike the wiz
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Message 489 of 687 (523763)
09-12-2009 1:32 PM
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09-12-2009 2:59 AM


You seriously think that biologists the world over have all made a catastrophic failure in basic anatomical identification and that these structures that can be dissected at every stage along embryological development and shown how they develop into certain structures in fish, other structures in terrestrial vertebrates, and still others in invertebrates don't actually exist?
No, once again I am not saying that at all. Which proves you don't understand English.
I have looked at the photographs and the embryo of a dog and a human was very different to the drawings you show. The tail is not as long in humans. The actual photographs show different shapes for different embryos.
I believe the brancial arches do exist, but these rudimentary forms didn't always look the same exactly, in the photographs I saw in the seminar.
It's not that I deny the existence, it's that they are not gill slits. I blob that looks like a penis and becomes an arm, isn't a penis-blob even if you name it that.
My only point is that these aren't "gills" in humans, at any stage. That these might become gills in fish is logically irrelevant because we wouldn't call these "human lung arches", would we? If these rudimentary arches are 100% accurately the same as one stage, as human branchial arches, then prove this, otherwise I am not obliged to believe that these rudimentary shapes are the "same" things in fish, human, dog. Actual photographs are what is needed, as I repeat, I do not trust you in the least. If you can show a fish, a dog and a human photograph of embryos at the same stage of development, then i will change my mind. That is your homework, not mine, because it is you who wanted to persue this in detail when it wasn't the topic.
If you are so confident they will be like the drawings, then show us. The likes of Gould disagree.
I pointed out something sound when I said that if they never become gills at all, in anyway, in say, a human or a dog, then why should they be called gill slit? Why should we believe that slightly similar rudimentary shapes prove something about gills where there are no actual gills, only rudimentary shapes?
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mike the wiz
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Message 490 of 687 (523765)
09-12-2009 1:48 PM
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09-12-2009 2:59 AM


Incorrect. You did see the attribute, yes? It is not Haeckel's drawing. It's an adaptation of it
WAHAHAHAHAHA. It looks EXACTLY THE SAME.
A human embryo looks NOTHING like the depiction.
My friend, it's that mikey really did know what he was saying, that's your problem. If you care to look at a human embryo, you will at no time find it looking like the drawing you provided.
As you can see in the following picture, the grotesque exaggeration in your presented drawings, is that of the region of the brancial arches, whereas reality seems to show something different;
HUman embryo
I could not find a photograph of anything that looked like your drawing, with those protruding "gill slits" that don't exist.

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mike the wiz
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Message 491 of 687 (523766)
09-12-2009 1:56 PM


Can anyone notice the difference?
In the drawing, we get a worm with gills, but in reality, we can not see these arches, as being anything meaningful. All we see is a human in a rudimentary form becomeing.............a human. Can we at any stage see any gills?
Do all mammals start out as fish? Not from the photograph of a human!
As we can see, anything before these developmental stages are not going to tell us anything about a recognized structure such as gills.
Think; If you had never seen a human before, could you guess, from looking at these pictures, what a human was going to become? I know I couldn't. So then logically, how can such rudimentary "shapes" be called "gill slits" in the first place, when you could not relate such primal blobs to anything significant untill they are substantially formed.
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mike the wiz
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Message 492 of 687 (523769)
09-12-2009 2:05 PM
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09-12-2009 3:06 AM


Instead of guessing what he is saying, and then offering a false dichotomy, how about actually reading his statement.
I.e. 100% of the "facts" show life coming from life, and that every single form is complex.
Therefore, are we obliged, through "no facts whatsoever", to believe in rudimentary biological forms. That is my question.

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