Science advances unsteadily with many false starts
and blind alleys. Yesterday's heresy becomes today's orthodoxy, today's
hope becomes tomorrow's despair. It is
perfectly OK to advance a theory or hypothesis which is then disproved,
that is how proper science advances. Hypothesis, experiment, results,
conclusion, debate, falsification, modification, hypothesis amended,
discarded or strengthened-this process has largely
served mankind well-not least in the field of medicine, in which I have studied and worked all my adult life. Science has also given us some useless junk and bad stuff as well, but that's not science's fault. After watching his 2 part series 'Enemies of
reason' (channel 4, August 2007, and no doubt a forthcoming book!)I am
in complete agreement with Richard Dawkins on this point. Science works.
No scientist should be criticised for honestly
advancing an idea which is later discredited, only for refusing to
accept when it is proved wrong, or, even worse, for putting something
forward as real science KNOWING IT TO BE FALSE AT THE TIME. This is rightly called FRAUD.
As well as deliberate fraud, there is what might be called near fraud,
the enthusiastic over interpretation of a piece of evidence, fossil or
other, and trumpeting it as final proof positive. This accusation can fairly be applied to
Darwin's original work, in which he asserted that the natural
variation we see in species could be assumed to stretch without limits
to account for all life forms coming from a single celled common
ancestor through the supposedly inexorable force of natural selection acting on naturally occuring variations. It was OK for CD to put this forward as a hypothesis for discussion and testing, but it's not OK to deny the falsifying evidence which is now so abundantly available.
Here are some observations on five of the more
significant and influential evolutionist frauds that we KNOW about. I
say WE know about, but in the case of at least 2 of the below, and
probably three, the truth is still being suppressed by a powerful
establishment which is happy for people to
believe the legend rather than the reality
Piltdown man
Haeckel's
embryo drawings
Bathybius
Nebraska man
Peppered moths
There have been many examples of enthusiasic over-interpretation of limited evidence as well as some outright fraud during the
history of evolution. The Darwin defender will say, for example about
the famous Piltdown
man fraud, 'Ah, but this shows how honest and self-correcting
science is, for the palaeontologists themselves exposed the fraud.'
Even if we take that statement at face value, and Malcolm Bowden's
meticulous study of the case gives us strong reasons for not doing so, the
fraud was used FOR FORTY YEARS to bolster belief in ape to man
evolution. Millions of people will have been persuaded of
evolution at least in part by this skilful and deliberate fraud, as was
presumably intended, and will have believed it for the rest of their
lives and died before the fraud was unmasked. This being the case, it
is fair to ask if there has ever been a time since 1857 when there were
not one or more frauds in the public mind, helping to make the case,
dishonestly. These frauds and near frauds are used for all they are
worth by evolutionists for as long as possible, and even when unmasked (who
knows how many are still concealed?) the retraction tends to be a
paragraph buried inside a newspaper rather then the banner headlines
when the 'discovery' was announced. The result of this is that in the
public mind, what is known to be fraud still stands as good evidence.
Perhaps the most cynical, and effective, single instance of
fraud is Haeckel's embryo drawings. These are
addressed by Jonathan Wells in his illustrated monograph 'Survival of the Fakest' The
German scientist Ernst Haeckel was a convinced evolutionist from the
earliest days-he was a friend of T H Huxley and like Huxley hated the
Christian religion and wanted to see the Christian world view
overthrown, so was naturally delighted when Darwin published Origin of
Species and promoted it for all he was worth, particularly in Germany. Haeckel was
building a nice career for himself on Evolutionism and
like many scientists before and since, decided to take it upon himself
to see that the evidence should conform to what he 'knew' was true.
Aware that actual evidence to support Darwin's speculations
was, to put in VERY mildly, lacking, Haeckel was keen to produce some, so he quite
deliberately faked a series of animal embryo drawings to make it appear that
'embryology recapitulated phylogeny', in other words, the story of our
gradual development by millions of small changes from the most
primitive organism via invertebrates, fishes, reptiles, lower mammals
and pigs etc. via ape to man could be seen in the development of the
embryo. This wasn't true, but Haeckel wanted it to be true and
so he made it so. He was actually found guilty of fraud by a university court at the time,
but this was conveniently overlooked and his drawings and arguments are
still used to this day! I was forced to memorise and regurgitate this
'evidence for evolution' for zoology A level and, incredibly, they were
used at no less than London's prestigious National Science Museum in
2006. They were only taken down after a protest from Truth in Science.
Some of the recent court cases in the USA about school books hinged on the inclusion of these century old frauds in present day school textbooks. So
much for the self-correcting nature of science where evolution is
concerned.
Haeckel's life and ethics are explored in Richard Weikart study 'From Darwin to Hitler' a book about the influence of Darwinism on Nazi thought which I confidently predict will never be serialised on BBC radio 4.
Perhaps not quite a
fraud (although you can never be sure-fraudsters plan their actions carefully and
take pains to conceal them) but a seminal example of the extreme
willingness of evolutionists to believe what they want to believe is
the story of Bathybius haeckelii The second part of
the name should give it away! This example of the sheer credulity of
evolutionists and their willingness to believe what they wanted to
believe led to the widespread of this fake science for 7 years. The
same thing goes on today with so called evidence of life on Mars, tales
of scientists 'creating' life etc. This was basically some sludge dredged up from the sea bed which was claimed to be origin of life material and was given a name as if it was a living organism. Basic chemical tests later proved it to be a simple chemical salt.
Nebraska man was in fact based on the
evidence of one tooth, which turned out to be from an extinct peccary,
a sort of pig. It was never proved beyond doubt that this was a
deliberate fraud, but the timing and presentation leave little honest
doubt that it was. The discovery was hyped up world wide as evidence of
ape to man evolution at the time of the notorious 'Scopes' monkey
trial' which itself has been grossly and deliberately misrepresented both in the
film 'Inherit the wind' and popular history to an extent which amounts to lying propaganda. When the
true facts came out, after the trial, the amount of news coverage given
to the exposure of the deception was tiny compared to the trumpeting of the
discovery that was said to prove evolution. How could it be more
obvious that this was indeed a very convenient discovery? And we are still getting the same sort of front page artists impressions of a supposed human ancestor based on a few bits of broken clay pot in a peat bog.Click here for a well researched article on the
Nebraska man fraud.
The peppered moth experiment is still
taught as proving evolution. Apart from the mind numbingly obvious fact
that there were both light and dark variants of the moth biston
betularia before the changes in tree bark colour discussed in the work,
and that therefore it was merely a cyclical variation in slightly
different varieties of the same species, it is now established that he
researcher Kettlewell faked his results. And yet this is still being
hyped by no less an evolutionist than professor Steve Jones, someone who
describes Christians as stupid fantasists, as an excellent example of
evolution. He is either as thick as he is ill mannered, (which I doubt), completely delf-deceived or a liar to
say this. Click
here for a detailed discussion of the peppered moth
fraud and a couple of other links confirming the truth behind this celebrated 'evidence of evolution' which is nothing but an
evolutionist con trick.
Of course, the biggest fraud of the lot is the continued
patently false assertion that science has established molecules to man
evolution as a fact and that here is no falsifying evidence. That is
the second biggest lie ever told, the biggest and most consequqntial being the denial of the
Creator Himself.
These 2 frauds are intimitately related and ultimately
come from the same source.