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CONCLUSION

In proposing his theory, Haeckel did not act contrary to the tradition of
evolutionist scientists; he produced imaginary drawings to illustrate his ide-
as. Even when embryology developed and it was revealed that the drawings
were fabricated, he acknowledged that he had not followed a different path
from the rest of his colleagues:
After this compromising confession of 'forgery' I should be obliged to
consider myself condemned and annihilated if I had not the consolation
of seeing side by side with me in the prisoner's dock hundreds of fellow-
culprits, among them many of the most trusted observers and most este-
emed biologists. The great majority of all the diagrams in the best
biological textbooks, treatises and journals would incur in the same deg-
ree the charge of 'forgery,' for all of them are inexact, and are more or less
doctored, schematised and constructed. 52

It can be understood from this confession that Haeckel's attempts to use
embryology as a proof for evolution are completely without foundation and
amount to nothing more than sophistry. The details we have given in the co-
urse of this book, as general as they were, of the miracle of human creation are
an undeniable proof of the truth of creation.
veryone in the world went into his mother's womb as a simple sperm
cell and there, under specially created conditions, united with an egg.
E After this, he began life as a single cell. You also went through this
process along with your mother, father, brothers and sisters, friends and acqu-

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