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followers described as the tail is actually phylogeny” theory, the.
the backbone, which resembles a tail
Eoalulavis
only because it develops before the legs.
These facts are known to everyone in This is one of the fossils that demo-
the world of science. Evolutionists also lishes evolutionist claims regarding Arc-
accept them. As George Gaylord Simp- haeopteryx, showing that no evolutio-
son, one of the founders of neo-Darwi- nary link can be established between
nism, writes, “Haeckel misstated the birds and dinosaurs. The wing structure
evolutionary principle involved. It is in Eoalulavis, approximately 30 million
now firmly established that ontogeny do- years older than Archaeopteryx, is exact-
es not repeat phylogeny.” 138
ly the same as that in slow-flying birds
That Haeckel’s theory is mere forgery
alive today. This feature considerably in-
is also accepted by the leading authorities
creases the bird’s maneuvering ability
of evolution. The world famous Science
and provides extra control during lan-
magazine announces this fact in its Sep-
ding and take-off.
tember 1997 issue under the title, “Haec-
The point is that a bird 30 million ye-
kel's Embryos: Fraud Rediscovered.”
ars older than Archaeopteryx was able to
Not only did Haeckel add or omit featu- fly in a very effective manner. 140
res, Richardson and his colleagues re- This proves that neither Archaeop-
port, but he also fudged the scale to teryx nor any other birds like it were
exaggerate similarities among species,
transitional forms.
even when there were 10-fold differences
in size. Haeckel further blurred differen-
ces by neglecting to name the species in Endosymbiosis Theory,
most cases, as if one representative was
the
accurate for an entire group of animals.
In reality, Richardson and his colleagues This thesis was put forward in 1970
note, even closely related embryos such by Lynn Margulis, who claimed that
as those of fish vary quite a bit in their bacterial cells turned into plant and ani-
appearance and developmental pathway. mal cells as the result of symbiotic and
"It looks like it's turning out to be one of
parasitical activity. According to this
the most famous fakes in biology," Ric- thesis, plant cells emerged after a bacte-
hardson concludes. 139
rium swallowed another photosynthetic
bacterium cell. The photosynthetic bac-
terium supposedly evolved inside the de-
Embryological recapitu- vouring cell and turned into a chlorop-
lation
last. Finally, organelles with very comp-
— See “Ontology recapitulates lex structures—such as the Golgi appa-

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)