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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
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Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 8)
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 11:30:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 11:30:02 1985
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>     B.  ALL  ARGUMENTS  FOR  EVOLUTION  ARE  OUTDATED,  ILLOGICAL,  OR
>         WISHFUL THINKING.
> 
> 
>        17.  As an embryo develops, it does not pass through the  adult
>             stages    of    its    alleged   evolutionary   ancestors.
>             Embryologists   no   longer   consider   the   superficial
>             similarity that exists between a few embryos and the adult
>             forms of simpler animals as evidence for evolution  [a-h].
>             The   drawings   by  Ernst  Haeckel,  which  led  to  this
>             widespread belief, were deliberately falsified [i-l].
> 
[Numerous references]

It is not a valid argument against evolution to ressurect a long-discredited
argument and show that it's wrong.  One could as well "prove" that the
earth is flat by citing discredited evidence for its roundness.

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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