文档介绍：SURVIVAL OF THE
FAKEST
SCIENCE NOW KNOWS THAT MANY OF THE PILLARS OF DARWINIAN THEORY ARE EITHER FALSE
OR MISLEADING. YET BIOLOGY TEXTS CONTINUE TO PRESENT THEM AS FACTUAL EVIDENCE OF
EVOLUTION. WHAT DOES THIS IMPLY ABOUT THEIR SCIENTIFIC STANDARDS?
-- JONATHAN WELLS
f you had asked me during my years studying science Richardson himself was quoted in the prestigious journal
at Berkeley whether or not I believed what I read in Science: “It looks like it’s turning out to be one of the most
my science textbooks, I would have responded much famous fakes in biology.”
Ias any of my fellow students: puzzled that such a Worse, this was no recent fraud. Nor was its dis-
question would be asked in the first place. One might find covery recent. The embryo drawings that appear in most
tiny errors, of course, typos and misprints. And science is every high school and college textbook are either repro-
always discovering new things. But I believed – took it as a ductions of, or based on, a famous series of drawings by
given – that my science textbooks represented the best sci- the 19th century German biologist and fervent Darwinian,
entific knowledge available at that time. Ernst Haeckel, and they have been known to scholars of
It was only when I was finishing my . in cell Darwin and evolutionary theory to be forgeries for over a
and development biology, h