Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute lying on the TeeVee
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I'm mirroring this video for DonExodus2, because I debated Casey Luskin briefly, until I proved he was lying on multiple points. Then he broke off the discussion saying that I was being mean to him. This is the same willfully ignorant shit-head who says that paternity tests don't work because if they did, they would challenge his religious nonsense. Now he's lying through his teeth on national TV. DonExodus2 caught him on it, as you can see, and the amoral bastiches at DI filed false -and illegal- DMCA against him. No. It ain't that easy.
Casey comments on Haeckel's embryos. Please see my video on the 13th foundational falsehood of creationism for more accurate information about that.
The Luskin/wrist bone comedy can be found here: pharyngula/2009/05/casey_luskin_smirking_liar.php
From New Scientist:
"As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, we await a third revolution that will see biology changed and strengthened. None of this should give succour to creationists, whose blinkered universe is doubtless already buzzing with the news that "New Scientist has announced Darwin was wrong". Expect to find excerpts ripped out of context and presented as evidence that biologists are deserting the theory of evolution en masse. They are not."
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Don't let the screen door hit you on the way out.
- Heckels embryos are an example of fraud because they overemphasise similarities.
- however to claim that there is NO similarities is an outright lie.
I agree they there are similarities. What they mean is not something that's really well worked out as far as I know. In terms of what they put in the textbooks, a good case could be made that they should just use the pharyngeal pouches and all that.
REALLY?
After being SCHOOLED over and over and over again?
Haekel was a visionary scientist. The accuracy or inaccuracy of his drawings in NO WAY diminishes his seminal scientific findings, which DIRECTLY led to MASSIVE improvements in our understanding of embryology and evolutionary developmental biology.
Period.
Haekel also drew blastophores, but no one complains about their accuracy.
Mortison is a joke. He thinks this one issue somehow disproves evolution and proves...what exactly, I have no idea, since he never proposes his own positive assertions regarding anything.
Yeah, Haeckl did fudge his drawings. It's a mistake in science textbooks to present them as factual. Google "Kenneth Miller Haeckel's embryos." Science should be about a search for the truth, not a political fight with creationists. Turning science in politics just demeans and perverts science.
Saying the Haeckl had some important ideas or that other drawings he did were not inaccurate it completely irrelevant. That has nothing to do with the issue here.
Haeckel fudged certain aspects of his drawings (not forging, although still very unscientific, which is why I actually agree that they shouldnt be in textbooks)
Stephen J. Gould described them either as "forgeries" or "fraudulent" or something similar. Sometimes the ones in textbooks are slightly better, but often they are incorrect for essentially the same reason. Check out Josh Rosenau's Thoughts from Kansas blog post on this topic. Everything he types is pretty much the opposite of the truth. Interestingly he files it under the head "culture wars".
How could Haekel's drawings POSSIBLY be "forgeries"? He drew them...he didn't copy someone else's drawings.
And HOW does ANY of that invalidate his work or raise even the merest concern over the ToE?
Doesn't.
But your insistence on using a red herring argument is clear evidence that you haven't the intellectual capacity to understand that point.
The BEST you've come up with are old editions of texts where OTHER representations of Haekel are presented.
And it must be pointed out that Haekel died in 1919. And NOTHING discovered since that has invalidated his science. And NOTHING about the drawings invalidates the ToE.
Red Herring argument. Meaningless.
Step 2-- Jam funnel down throat
Step 3-- Allow him to "discover" the feeling of battery acid in his stomach.
Fuckin swine. I fucking HATE TV!