Thursday, February 8, 2007
Flock of Dodos and Haeckel's Embryos
Randy Olson made a movie called Flock of Dodos where he pokes fun at the IDiots. Unfortunately, Olson made a mistake when he said that the old faked images of Haeckel's embryos were not in modern textbooks.
The Discovery Institute pounced on this error and made a clever video that discredits Olson. The DI video may have some errors of its own; for example, I'm not sure if the embryo picture in the Raven & Johnson biology textbook is actually based on a Haeckel drwaing as they say. Also, the picture of the Haeckel woodcut in the Alberts texbook isn't as significant as they imply.
In spite of the possible mistakes in the video (below) the DI has been quite clever. The IDiots have cast doubt on all the claims in Flock of Dodos because of one little slip-up.
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