Tommy Mann

The final famous fraud that we will look at is Ernst Haeckel’s drawings of embryo development: Haeckel sketched the development of several species from embryo to adulthood. He traced the development of a salamander, fish, turtle, rabbit, chick, hog, calf, and human. The point of the chart was clear: to prove common ancestry by showing the similarities among each study in the embryonic stage. How important is this chart to evolution? Charles Darwin, who was a close friend of Haeckel, said the chart was, “by far the strongest single class of facts in favor of” evolution. [1]    Haeckel’s theory was that human embryos replay each stage of the evolutionary process before becoming human. We now know that his sketches were fake. Even his peers accused him of fraud. Not only was he a liar, he was wrong. His theory, which he called “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny,” has also been scientifically debunked. And yet his theory is used to justify abortion...

Darwinian evolution has had a great impact on our society, and I am not just referring to the classroom. When Darwin first crafted his theory of evolution, which his writings show was his attempt to get rid of God and hell, he opened the door to a world that puts no value on life. If mankind is nothing more than some animal, then what is the big deal if one man kills another? Isn’t that what animals do? And does not mankind kill “lower” animals all the time, for both food and sport? Was Darwin trying to push humanity down this slippery slope that devalues human life? I doubt it. Charles Darwin seems like he was a nice guy, but the tragic death of his daughter, the evolutionary influence of his grandfather, and the thought of his father in hell sent him down his own path. But some of his followers eagerly picked up where Darwin left off. Is Darwin responsible for what his followers do? Not really, but his ideas—his very worldview—helped influence some people to view life ...