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Theory of Recaptitulation (1866). Zoologist Ernst Haeckel introduced his theory of the biogenetic law, which states that in early stages of embryological development all life reveals it evolutionary history. He wrote in his book The History of Creation (1876): “This hypothesis is indispensable for the consistent completion of the non-miraculous history of creation.”[i] By 1911, the theory was proven to be a total hoax. Haeckel not only utilized deceptive data but he also used doctored drawings to delude his devotees. His dishonesty was so blatant that he was charged with fraud and convicted by a court of five professors. His forgeries were made public in 1911.[ii] [ As a tragic aside, in 1977, Carl Sagan affirmed Haeckel’s theory in his book The Dragons of Eden[iii] and he used this theory in defense of the abortion rights decision Roe vs Wade. Abortion in his view was just the innocent termination of a fish or a frog.[iv] As bad, in 2003, I discovered the textbook (Biology, Ritter, Robert John, Nelson Canada, 1993) that my daughter was using in high school, in Calgary no less, for grade eleven, introduces fossil evidence supporting “evolution” and then offers the following under the title “Indirect Evidence: Living Organisms”: “Around the same time, another German biologist, E.H. Haeckel, advanced the theory of recapitulation, more commonly expressed as ‘ontogeny recapitulates (repeats) phylogeny.’ In other words, every organism repeats its evolutionary development in its own embryology. The theory is applicable only in a very broad sense. Scientists believe that many structures in an embryo are similar to those found in common ancestors.”[v]]
[i] Ernst Haeckel, Natürliche schöpfungsgeschichte Berlin 1876. Translation revised by E. Ray Lankester under the title The History of Creation 2 Vols. (New York: D. Appleton, 1876). Cited in Ian Taylor, In the Minds of Men: Darwin and the New World Order (Toronto, TFE Publishing, 1991), p.190. [ii] Walt Brown, In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, 6th ed. (Phoenix: Center for Scientific Creation, 1995), p.45. Cited in Hank Hanegraaff, The Face That Demonstrates The Farce of Evolution (Nashville Tenessee: W Publishing Group, 1998), p.95. [iii] Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden (New York: Random House, 1977), pp.57 and 58. Cited in Hanegraaf, pp.95 and 96. [iv] Ibid., p.197. Hanegraaf, p.96. [v] Ritter, Robert John, “Biology”, Nelson Canada, Scarborough, 1993, p100-101 |