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PIGEONS AND EVOLUTION
THE UNFORTUNATE HIJACKING OF SCIENCE
By Silvio Mattacchione, silvio@silvio-co.com, www.silvio-co.com
The
average person rarely ever thinks about pigeons. Yet pigeon fanciers seem
to be able to think about nothing else. It is my intention, to one day
write a brief article that will show that pigeons of some form or other
have been involved at the center of many of
the worlds great events.
A
pigeon brought Noah the news that heralded the end of the great flood.
Figure
1: The dove was sent forth from the Ark to find evidence that the
waters of the universal flood were receding. The olive branch which the
dove carried in its beak was good news for all of us!
A pigeon
was the form taken by the Holy Ghost at the baptism of Jesus Christ, King
of Kings, by St. John The Baptist.

Figure
2: The Holy Ghost, the third person of the Blessed Trinity, has traditionally
been represented as a dove descending from heaven.
Pigeons
were involved in the building of great empires, the amassing of vast fortunes,
great sieges of important cities, the great communication routes of the east, the great wars of history, the opening
of important Olympic games, the feeding of entire countries or the duping
and undermining of entire peoples and civilizations together with the
undermining of science. It is this last point (the undermining of science)
that I intend to briefly comment upon in this short article.
I
am not a geneticist or biologist, nor ornithologist, or for that matter
scientist of any sort. I am but a life long breeder of pigeons. My day to
day occupation is that of an independent book publisher and my formal training
is in the field of history.
Figure
3: "The Pigeon Guide," a recently published book
by Silvio Mattacchione & Co., covers all aspects of pigeon breeding and care
as well as a great number of photos of the many varieties of pigeons (racing,
performance and utility) that have been developed by pigeon fanciers
around the world.
In
a very real sense I am probably (that is my pigeon breeding self) the
type of person that Darwin
sought out, listened to, discussed with and learned from in order to better
focus his own evolving ideas.
I
can still remember, when I was quite young, possibly in the fourth grade,
circa 1960, when I heard the term
"evolution" for the first time followed by the
name of its co-founder "Darwin." I had arrived in Canada in
1956, everything was so strange, a new country, new peoples, new ways, new
foods, new language, change was everywhere, it was in fact the order of
the day. For that matter the only
constant in the lives of most people today is "constant change."
When I told
my father what I had just learned he scoffed and quickly set me straight
on Mr. Darwin and his ideas. The concept of "molecule to man" was really
quite a remarkable stretch of the imagination. The product no doubt, of
a very fertile mind. Still what did my immigrant dad know compared to
all my new teachers, the new TV, the newspapers and books...oh so many
books? I was really intrigued with Darwin and his theory.
After all to that 4th grader Darwin was a pigeon fancier, albeit
a novice.
Figure
4: Photo Of Darwin in later life together
with an image of his "The Origin of Species." This image was taken
from a site entitled www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/
squashed/darwin.htm and is used with permission. Most people are unaware that Darwin
offered as its subtitle "The Preservation Of Favoured Races In The Struggle
For Life."
I was fascinated
by pigeons and Darwin
was equally fascinated by and studied pigeons. Darwin could have studied
anything, but he had determined to study a special group of birds and
that special group of birds was in fact the pigeon. Here is what he had
to say:
"Believing
that it is always best to study some special group, I have joined two of
the London
Pigeon Clubs. The diversity of the breeds is something astonishing. The
short-faced tumbler has a beak like a finch; the runt is a bird of great
size; the turbit has a line of reversed feathers down the breast. The Jacobin
has a hood on the back. The fantail has thirty or forty tail-feathers, instead
of the usual twelve or fourteen. Such are the variations that an ornithologist
would certainly rank them as well-defined species. Yet I am fully convinced
that the common opinion of naturalists is correct, namely, that all have
descended from the wild rock-pigeon (Columba livia)." [1]
As I was
growing up, I daily enjoyed observing my pigeons, (in my back yard in Toronto, in the early
60's) and Darwin had observed
pigeons at his home in the UK, as well
as at the homes of so many famous British fanciers of the 19th
century.
Figure
5: Highly developed show specimen "Blue Vision" known as a British Show Racer,
bred and perfected by many including by author, stockman, Douglas McLeary
of the UK.
Show Racers, though beautiful to look at, were never developed to endure
or achieve the performance levels required of Racing Pigeons.
His
supposed understanding of the pigeon amongst other forms ultimately led
to the formulation of a theory so powerful that we are still suffering
from its effects a century and a half later. He was to convince himself
that selection, eventually to be referred to as "Natural Selection" was
the primordial engine by which all life was to forever move from lesser
forms to higher forms, from less complicated to always more refined, more
adapted and more complicated forms. The pinnacle of this process culminating
in man himself! Here, in his own words, is the essence of his belief and
hypothesis:
"Such variability
may be attributed to the conditions of life, to use and disuse. But I am
convinced that Selection is by far the predominant Power." [2]
Today,
the mantra of evolution is heard everywhere, repeated everywhere, (in
the home, at the schools, in the churches and in the parliaments of the
world). Yet clearly it is understood by virtually no one and misunderstood
by virtually everyone!
Figure
6:
Specialist pigeon fanciers in New York have spent the last half of the 20th century perfecting
the finer qualities of the USA variety
known as the "Flight." Photo courtesy of Ronda Mariani.
It certainly
seems to me that Darwin's work itself has been subject to this supposed
evolution, for it (Darwin's work) began as a hypothesis, then quickly evolved
into a theory, and with the passage of only a brief
amount of additional time emerged fully mutated into an entity more akin
to a religion than to science. A pseudo religion, in many cases a type of
state religion, a religion of the supposed enlightened. Oddly enough in
the 21st Century science itself has taken a back seat to this
new, politically correct religion! Evolution - religion for those who have
freed themselves permanently of all need of religion. How very odd yet here
is what was written of "Darwin's
dangerous idea"... "This
is what Daniel Dennett called 'Darwin's dangerous idea' - that natural selection
can be seen as governing, not only the world's flora and fauna, but even
its history, its economics and its ideas. Even religious ideas, it seems,
are subject to the same laws of advancement as all other things,
"multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."
[3]
Figure
7: "Medallion Cock" a
Champion British Show Racer bred by Douglas McLeary of the UK. It takes
great ability to maintain this level of quality consistently. These birds
reflect the artistic and creative abilities of the pigeon fanciers who perfected
them as a unique variety. An artist is limited to creating two dimensional
art on canvas whereas a truly dedicated pigeon fancier is interested in
creating living art! It was once thought that there were some 3-400 varieties
of pigeons however with the opening up of Eastern Europe and China that number could possibly double!
I have read many articles by pigeon enthusiasts that often make reference
to Darwin
and evolution. Many talk of how the pigeon has evolved and how it is still
evolving. It would seem to me, if this were in fact a truth, that
such knowledge, in the hands of really dedicated pigeon breeders would be
an awesome (awesome power in the sense of what a pigeon breeder could achieve
in transforming his charges) power. Yet for the 41 years that I have bred
the racing (as well as other pigeons) I find my experience as a breeder
of animals, and my observations at constant odds with all that Darwin wrote
and imagined.
When you
choose to breed animals, any animals and certainly when you have done
so for as many years as I have, you begin to come to certain conclusions,
regardless of what has or has not been postulated or hypothesized. In
time I would come to write the following from my observations (which appeared
in racing pigeon publications worldwide) and my hands on experience, with
breeding pigeons (but certainly totally applicable to any animal or plant
form):
Figure
8: The racing pigeon, as we now know
it, is the result of two centuries of total dedication to selective breeding
on the part of racing pigeon fanciers. The modern racing pigeon breeds
true but it is a hybrid that combined the best qualities of many different
pigeon varieties. The careful combination of the finest qualities of all
of these different varieties resulted in a highly developed homing instinct,
aerodynamic body, tremendous heart (nearly twice the size of a regular
pigeon's heart) and indestructible constitution, making the racing pigeon
the ultimate flying machine. Pictured above is "Phar Lap" a great-great
grandson of St. Thomas, bred by Silvio
Mattacchione, in 1997. Phar Lap was the Kwartha Northshore Combine Champion
as well as The Oshawa Racing Pigeon Club Old Bird Champion for 1998. He
flew 4,500 kilometers in 10 weeks.
"If
you wish to breed good pigeons, or good animals of any kind, you must
come to truly understand this simple truth. What truth? Well, the simple
truth is that Nature abhors order. Nature is the great equalizer; Nature
does not willingly admit of extremes. Left to herself, Nature reverts
to the common form. Nature never progresses from less order to greater
order, but always from order to disorder if left to her designs.
Most current
livestock survive in the form in which they exist because they are beneficial
to man in that form. They exist in that form because expert herdsmen (or
geneticists, scientists, and others) have applied known genetic principles
to common stock so as to modify them to their own ends, i.e., more milk,
more meat, more eggs, faster horse, and so on. If man took himself out
of the equation, the result would be a reversion or extinction of the
form." [4]
Without really
knowing it, nor having studied it , my experience with breeding the racing
pigeon, had lead me to enunciated, in my own words, a well know universal
law of science. That is the second law of thermodynamics often called the
law of entropy!

Figure
9: This exceptional variety
know as a "Satinette" has required tremendous work in developing
the incredibly complicated features of the head and beak. Someone, a fancier,
had a vision, clarified it in his own mind, prepared drawings of what his mind's eye saw and then spent his
entire life working out hundreds
and possibly thousands of breedings in an attempt to achieve the standard
that he envisioned. Most often these works of art are established over
many generations of pigeon fanciers. Photo courtesy of Ronda Mariani.
"Regarding
the second law of thermodynamics (universally accepted scientific law which
states that all things left to themselves will tend to run down) or the
law of entropy, it is observed, "It would hardly be possible to conceive
of two more completely opposite principles than this principle of entropy
increase and the principle of evolution. Each is precisely the converse
of the other. As (Aldous) Huxley defined it, evolution involves a continual
increase of order, of organization, of size, of complexity. It seems
axiomatic that both cannot possibly be true. But there is no question whatever
that the second law of thermodynamics is true." [5]
It is further
worthy of note that these two universal laws (the 1st and 2nd
laws of thermodynamics) are based upon literally thousands of scientific
experiments, with no known exceptions.
Figure 10: "Limited Edition" has
bred over 23 sons and daughters to win 1st place. A unique racing pigeon
specimen. He traces in a direct male line from the line of the "Oude Mercke."
He is very pre-potent and it seems that he has a
very rare ability to pass his qualities on to his offspring. His ability
to pass his genetic code seemingly un-adulterated is not the norm. Owned
by Silvio Mattacchione and Jim McLean.
"These laws
state that any natural process would involve conservation (1st law) and
disintegration (2nd law). Evolution demands "integration and development"
and is therefore impossible." [6]
What has
happened to and in the minds of people, of all levels, of all disciplines,
is that they can no longer understand that "truth can never be in contradiction
to truth." I remember well the words of David Goldstein LL.D. in a series
of letters he wrote in 1943 where he said as follows:
"Although
faith is above reason, there can never be disagreement between faith and
reason, because the same God who has revealed the mysteries and communicated
faith, has also given to the human mind the natural light of reason, and
we know that God cannot contradict Himself, nor can truth ever be in contradiction
with truth. Not only can faith and reason never be in discord, but they
lend each other mutual help; right reason demonstrates the foundation of
faith, and enlightened by the light of faith, it develops the science of
divine things; faith , on the other hand, frees and protects reason from
error and enriches it with knowledge of many kinds. The Church, therefore,
far from being opposed to the study of the arts and sciences, favors these
studies and propagates them in a thousand ways." [7]
In
the face of these two universal laws why is it that evolution is taught
to our children as fact? Certainly it makes no scientific sense. If not
science then what? Well the answer certainly seems to be summed up nicely
in the following quotation from D.M.S.Watson:
"Evolution
itself is accepted by zoologists, not because it has been observed to occur
or can be proved by logical coherent evidence, but because the only alternative
-- special creation -- is clearly incredible." [8]
Figure 11: Creation Of
Man by Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1511-1512
fresco located in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy. Image from
www.mystudios.com/.../michelangelo-creation-man.jpg
Darwin had every
reason to doubt his own work. He was constantly in a state of paranoia regards
the veracity of all of his conjectures. He was haunted by the fear that
he had in fact devoted his entire life to the creation of a fantasy! Darwin
was to write as follows: "I
have asked myself whether I may not have devoted my life to a fantasy."[9]
Figure 12: This show homer is prized for its great beauty. Work
is required on a continuous basis to maintain the special features of the
round head and beak. hen has I know
a squab breeder in Canada
who incorporates all kinds of unique elements both " crests and
unique color varieties" to maintain his interest and stave off boredom. If you have, patience , time and a vision of
a new pigeon variety and you are
dedicated to its development you can achieve your goal. Photo courtesy of
Ronda Mariani.
What
does all of this really mean? Well in simplest terms it certainly seems
to indicate that many scientists (geneticists, biologists, botanists,
zoologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, etc.) have chosen, for many
reasons (most of which have nothing to do with science) to close their
collective eyes to the immutable laws of science. In essence they choose
to survive in this politically correct, modern world. In most cases they
do what needs to be done. Educators, who have little or no expertise of
their own, in any of these areas but who, in many cases, are subject to
all of the same survival and promotional considerations as the scientists
in question, just do their jobs. Children world wide walk away dazed and
confused. Little wonder then what we currently see around us.
W.R.Thompson,
who is certainly pro-evolution, in his introduction to Origin of Species
by Darwin, (page 90) had the following observation to make:
"This
situation, where men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable
to define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific rigor,
attempting to maintain its credit with the public by the suppression of
criticism and the elimination of difficulties, is abnormal and undesirable
in science."[10]
What
have I learned as a stockman? I know for a fact that no biologist can
give any evidence that shows that any species has evolved from another.
I know through observation that new varieties of plants can and are developed,
as are new varieties of animals but this process cannot in any way be
referred to as evolution. Yet clearly Darwin
(was?) seemed to be confused (willingly so?) by this very simple distinction.
He glossed over it, confused it, made light of it and sought to even have
it prove what any novice stock breeder knew intuitively and that is that
variety and species were fundamentally of a different order. Here is what
Darwin had to say in his Chapter
VIII on Hybridism in his "Origin
of Species":
"Finally,
then, the facts briefly given in this chapter do not seem to me opposed
to, but even rather to support the view, that there is no fundamental distinction
between species and varieties." [11]
Figure
13: Head shot of the "long faced tumbler" as you
compare each of the head shots in this article you can begin to imagine
the incredible work , patience and dedication that it requires on the
part of large numbers of fanciers, over many generations, to both perfect
and then maintain these incredible varieties over so many countless generations.
Some varieties are centuries old, some have been with us since the time
of biblical man! Photo courtesy of Ronda Mariani.
Charles
Darwin knew full well the difficulties inherent in his "fantasy," that
he had spent his entire life formulating. One of many difficulties was
certainly that of the fossil record. In Chapter X of "The Origin Of Species"
there is a sub heading as follows: Intermediate Varieties Absent in
any Single Formation; Sudden Appearance of Groups of Allied Species in
the Lowest Known Fossiliferous Strata. Here is what Darwin had to say:
"There
is another and allied difficulty, which is much more serious. I allude to
the manner in which species belonging to the main divisions of the animal
kingdom suddenly appear in the lowest fossiliferous rocks.Some
of the most ancient animals, as the Nautilus, Lingula, etc., do not differ
much from living species; and it cannot in our theory be supposed that these
old species were the progenitors of all the species belonging to the same
groups which have subsequently appeared, for they are not in any degree
intermediate in character." [12]
What
Darwin was saying was very clear, "evolution" has very real problems (
and I leave it up to all of my supporters to sort this out) and that is
that the fossil record does not in any way support the veracity of what
Darwin had written. That contrary to all that he had speculated upon,
the fossil record revealed ( and still reveals) all species fully formed
( no intermediate forms). The geological record did not and does not support
the concept of the transmutation of species. Many
knew this only too well including Aggassiz, Pictet, and Sedgwick. Darwin fully admits that from the positive
evidence from paleontology his theory of evolution was impossible. Yes
you read this correctly "IMPOSSIBLE!"
Yet
to his supporters, then as now nothing is or was or will ever be impossible.
The great fossil race was on, it was only a matter of time now and mankind
could be finally free. Certainly nothing as simple as
the fossil record would stand in the way of their ultimate emancipation
from religion. The fossil record, like so many other records would be
made to yield whatever the controllers wished.
It
is always very interesting for me personally to review the records of some of the
great ornithologists, people like Mr. Douglas Dewar F.Z.S..Mr . Dewar
was a specialist in ornithology and one of the worlds greatest authorities
on all aspects of the evolution problem. Here is what he had to say:
"The theory of evolution
must stand or fall by the evidence of the fossils. These furnish the only
direct evidence. If this be against the theory, no amount of indirect
evidence can avail.
Fossils are the remains
of, or of impressions made by animals and plants in the rocks. If an animal
having a skeleton, shell, or other hard parts, be buried or covered by
sediment after death before the hard parts have had time to decompose,
they are likely to be preserved as fossils.
One of the most formidable
objections to the evolution theory is the fact that no fossil has been
discovered of an animal intermediate between creatures having a peculiar
skeleton, such as bats, whales, dugongs, seals, frogs, turtles, pterodactyls,
ichtyosauruses etc., and the supposed ordinary quadrupedal animals, from
which, according to the theory, they have been evolved .If this theory
be true, these intermediate forms must have existed in immense numbers
in the past .Darwin devoted a whole chapter of
The Origin0Of Species in an attempt to meet this difficulty. The
best he could do was to express his belief that the fossil record is "incomparably
less perfect' than is usually supposed. And, so far as I am aware no later
evolutionist has been able to improve on Darwins efforts.
The Fossil Record is
far more complete than Darwin supposed it to be, and than his followers
admit.
Every genus of animal
having a skeleton or hard parts has left a fossil remains."[13]
It
is sad to observe that rather than promoting science, the pursuit of knowledge
and truth the theory of Darwin has only lead to a recourse to fraud in a futile attempt
to prove at any cost that man evolved from a brute beast. Dr. W.R. Thompson
refers to this very fact in his introduction to The Origin of Species;
"the success of Darwinism
was accompanied by a decline in scientific integrity" He gives as
examples the case of the Piltdown skull, in which an apes jawbone
was substituted for the original human one, and the case of the Java Man,
in which a battered skullcap of a gibbon was represented as belonging
to a creature half-man, half-ape, in order to provide an argument for
Darwin's theory that man was descended from an ape"[14]
Anyone
wishing to do additional research on the Piltdown fraud can find details
in The Bulletin of The British Museum, 1953 or The Piltdown Forgery by
J.S.Weiner ( London, 1955) or The Piltdown Fantasy by Francis Vere (London
, 1959)
"Piltdown was discovered
in 1953 to have been nothing more than an Ape's jaw placed with a human
skull. It was a hoax placed on purpose. They recognized neither the jaw
to be an ape's or the skull to be a human's. Instead, they declared each
part as an in between of ape and human. They dated it to be 500,000 years
old, gave it a name (Eoanthropus Dawsoni or `Dawn Man'), and wrote some
500 books on it. The `discovery' fooled paleontologists for forty five
years."[15]
I
dare say that the list, had Dr. W.R. Thompson wanted, could have been
extended with many, many more examples of fraud.
"For example, he might
have referred to the Australopithecinae fossils, put forward by Drs. Dart
and Broom as evidence of evolution, which were proved to be just fossils
of ordinary apes by Professor Zuckerman in his chapter on Evolutions as
a process, edited by Dr. Julian Huxley, A.C. Hardy and E.B. Ford (1954)."[16]
The
commentary found at http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/evid5.htm
sums up the actual fossil situation as it applies to these supposed hominids
( creatures that were assumed by evolutionists to be part man part animal
, the long sought missing links).
"Nine of the twelve popularly supposed
hominids are actually extinct apes/monkeys and not part human at all.
The first nine of the twelve popularly
regarded hominids put forth by evolutionists by bone and skull finds have
been demonstrated as being extinct apes or monkeys and not part human
at all. The discovery of extinct apes demonstrated some of the finds to
be monkeys/ apes. Close examination of the skulls and bones have caused
experts to determine that none of the other skulls have any human characteristics
either. The bones and skulls found could be any of the perhaps thousands
of monkeys and apes that have existed in the past. These bones and skulls
have never been found apart from where apes/monkeys live or have lived."[17]
Well
this only leaves three to deal with and again the commentary found at
http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/evid6.htm
concludes with the actual truth of these final three as follows:
"The final three supposed hominids
put forth by evolutionists are actually modern human beings and not part
monkey/ape at all. Therefore, all twelve of the supposed hominids can
be explained as being either fully monkey/ape or fully modern human but
not as something in between.
The last three of the popular twelve
hominids have been demonstrated as being modern human beings. Human skulls
naturally vary in size and many other characteristics. They often also
are misshapen by certain diseases such as rickets, arthritis, Paget's
disease, congenital syphilis, and starvation. Skulls found with diseases
or normal human variations could lead one to suppose that certain modern
human skulls are something less than human. This has been a great mistake
by evolutionists who not only have failed to recognize variance in human
skulls but also to make the public aware of it as well."[18]
Any
theory that provides an incentive for
"the introduction of fraud
( every single instance , without exception, of fossil man has been proven
fraudulent, yet beyond the specialty journals where this evidence of fraud
first appeared in some cases 50 or more years ago, no attempt is ever
made by the media, by educators in elementary, secondary or post secondary
schools, by most supposed scientists, by educational TV or by governmental
authorities to expose the fraud) and superstition into scientific investigation,
when no genuine proof could be found" [19]
should be relegated to where it belongs in a dust-heap in a world of fantasy!
So
clearly, (for those who wish to see and some who may wish to investigate
further) evolution transgresses both
of "The Laws of Thermodynamics" as well as the evidence of
the "fossil record" is there additional evidence of scientific
abuse in this supposed theory? We shall see but I suspect that the answer
is in the affirmative !
Darwin
and many others garnered substantial mileage out of supposed observations
on embryology and in essence here is what Darwin had to say in Chapter XIII entitled Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings:
Morphology, Embryology, Rudimentary Organs in his The Origin of Species
. What follows is essentially a synopsis of the chapter mentioned from
the squashed version edited by Glen Hughes from his site at www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/
squashed/darwin.htm
"Embryology- How can we explain these several facts in embryology,- namely
of the striking similarity between embryos of different species; difference
in structure between the embryo and the adult;- of parts in the same individual
embryo, which ultimately become very unlike and serve for diverse purposes,
being at this early period of growth alike;- of embryos of different species
within the same class, generally, but not universally, resembling each
other;- of the structure of the embryo not being closely related to its
conditions of existence, except when the embryo becomes at any period
of life active and has to provide for itself;- of the embryo apparently
having sometimes a higher organisation than the mature animal. I believe
that all these facts can be explained only on the view of descent with
modification" [20]
Figure 14 This is really where it all begins.
Pictured is a direct son of St. Thomas x Peggy ( the
full sister to St. Thomas) called "The
Patriot" sitting tightly a fresh clutch of eggs. Embryology is one of
those areas that pigeon fanciers learn very early in their efforts to
breed good birds.
Darwin believed that all of these supposed facts could be
best explained only in terms of his theory? Well having published what
is probably the bible of hatching eggs in the parrot world entitled "Parrot
Incubation Procedures"
("If secularistic science cannot explain how
an egg becomes a chicken in 21 days, it is certain that a scientific explanation
of how an amoeba could become a university professor in 3 billion years
is far from achievement" [21]) as well as having seen countless pigeons and poultry
and game-birds incubated I would disagree! I am not the only person that
would disagree, the following excerpts from an article written by James
Perloff
© http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=217762001 WorldNetDaily.com
which clearly lays out yet another fraud;
"Embryology is a field that evolutionists long
used to make a case for Darwin's theory. Most of us have seen those
pictures in biology textbooks of developing human embryos next to developing
animal embryos, and the human embryos and animals look indistinguishable.
This was said to demonstrate that we share a common ancestry with these
animals and thus prove the theory of evolution. These pictures were designed
by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel. What few people know is that they were fakes. At Jena, the university where he taught, Haeckel
was charged with fraud by five professors and convicted by a university
court. His deceit was exposed in "Haeckel's Frauds and Forgeries"
(1915), a book by J. Assmuth and Ernest R. Hull. They quoted 19 leading
authorities of the day. Anatomist F. Keibel of Freiburg University said, "it clearly appears that
Haeckel has in many cases freely invented embryos, or reproduced the illustrations
given by others in a substantially changed form." Zoologist L. Rütimeyer
of asle University called his distorted drawings "a
sin against scientific truthfulness." [22]
Mr
.Perloff goes on in his article as follows:
"In spite of his conviction
for fraud, and in spite of the exposure, Western educators continued using
Haeckel's drawings in biology textbooks as proof of the theory of evolution.
The matter has finally
been settled by Dr. Michael Richardson, an embryologist at St. George's Medical School, London. He found there was no record that
anyone ever actually checked Haeckel's claims by systematically comparing
human and other fetuses during development. He assembled a scientific
team that did just that -- photographing the growing embryos of 39 different
species. In a 1997 interview in The Times of London, Dr. Richardson stated, "This
is one of the worst cases of scientific fraud. It's shocking to find that
somebody one thought was a great scientist was deliberately misleading.
It makes me angry. . What he [Haeckel] did was to take a human embryo
and copy it, pretending that the salamander and the pig and all the others
looked the same at the same stage of development. They don't. . These
are fakes." [23]
It truly is
very odd and even more curious to think that;
"God has been driven
out and his divine design rejected in favor of "primordial soup."
The disgrace of such
one-sided education is not only the endorsed spoon-feeding of bad science
and secular bias to schoolchildren and adults alike, but most alarmingly
the pivotal role it plays in cultivating moral relativism in society.
The Origin of Species helped shape the philosophies of men
such as Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx. In a society where we regard "communism"
as the scarlet letter of our day, a surprising multitude of people readily
and blindly embrace Darwinian theories of evolution."[24]
In Chapter V LAWS
OF VARIATION Darwin informs us that;
"Natural selection will
accumulate all profitable variations, however slight, until they become
plainly developed and appreciable by us. For instance, when a new insect
first arrived on an island, selection will enlarge or reduce the wings,
depending on whether a
greater number of individuals
were saved by battling with the winds, or by rarely or never flying."[25]
Is this really
possible? Can mutations be beneficial? Are they cumulative? Do mutations
or can mutations lead to greater order, greater perfection or are mutations
nothing more or less than degenerative errors in code?
"Since mutations occur
according to the law of increasing entropy (disorder), it seems unreasonable
to believe that they could produce increasing order and complexity. The
majority of observable mutations do, in fact, appear to be bad, destroying
the order of complex biological designs. Many mutations are apparently
neutral, however, causing no visible effect.
Each time cell division occurs the
DNA molecules that are genes must be copied so that the resulting daughter
cells have the same coded information as the parent cell. A large proportion
of the mutations in wild populations probably result from errors in the
copying process. These may well be caused by the random heat motion of
the molecules when the DNA is being copied. Radiation, certain chemicals,
and other physical influences can also cause mutations. In accordance
with the Second Law the effect of mutations should be to make the sequence
of the letters of the genetic code message carried by the DNA molecules
become more disordered or random. That is, the coded message carried by
the DNA molecules should become on the average less meaningful, more and
more scrambled, until it becomes nonsense after many cell divisions. Therefore,
mutations should not be expected to produce increasingly complex and meaningful
information content in the DNA of any species. Rather, the result should
be just the opposite. This is verified in nature where most visible mutations
appear to be bad for any organism.5 "[26]
The following
quote from Rob Wipond I believe is totally applicable to Evolution and
possibly many of its adherents,
"What we call rational thinking may just be
a highly sophisticated and powerful method of self-delusion." (Rob
Wipond).
Over
the years I have had occasion to speak to Dr. Bernard d"Abrera the author of over 31 books including his last
entitled The Concise Atlas Of Butterflies
Of The World, on a fairly regular
basis. I will therefore give him , through his latest book, the opportunity
to conclude this brief article.
".I have described mankind
as being capable of "great objective
goodness, and much subjective evil.". The first may be defined as a propensity
for the selfless pursuit of truth no matter what the cost. The second
is the propensity for the selfish pursuit of any means whatever to achieve
the ends that justify them, Thus, we see all around us the disorder of
a new iconoclasm against rigorous and objective scientific method. The
inflammable ingredients of this explosive mixture, are the lofty arrogance
of the scientific elite and the appalling ignorance of simple souls, together
with the appalling metaphysical ignorance of the scientific elite and
the lofty arrogance of the 'democratic rights' of simple souls. And what
has produced this terrible state of affairs? Why, none other than Evolutionism
itself! If Evolutionists within the scientific community and the media
relentlessly propagandise their hypothesis that man is a solely corporeal
animal, descended from brute apes ( and the amino acid and beyond them),
then millions of simple souls for their own selfish reasons, are going
to believe them. These millions of simple souls lack the interest or education
necessary to distinguish between speculative hypothesis and incontrovertible
fact. This is especially so when a century and a half of the deliberate
blurring of the lines of distinction between theory and truth in the scientific
textbooks and popular literature, not to mention the media, has occurred,
unopposed. It is palpably true that under such remorseless pressure, simple
souls would soon begin to believe that they have no souls, simple or otherwise,
but that they are indeed simple animals, albeit of a slightly more 'evolved'
nature than their 'brothers and sisters', the butterflies, the rabbits,
the family pets, the chimpanzees, and even the trees! Thus, paradoxically,
human beings now have no souls, but the cute and cuddly animals certainly
do!
Evolutionism has finally
fallen victim to its own propaganda. It is the sole cause of the pathogen
of the universal insanity of this nihilistic and schizophrenic age..Indeed
Evolutionary Man having slandered and libeled Biblical Man into impotent
irrelevance, is now leading mankind backwards down atavistic pathways
into a terrifying auto-demolition of civilization and all that is transcendentally
good and noble. Thus, such deadly, misguided and contradictory anthropomorphisms
as movements to (a) obstruct scientific research; (b) forbid the making
and keeping of collections; (c) shut down museums and laboratories; (d)
frustrate natural animal husbandry, fisheries and agriculture;
(e) undertake genetic
engineering for human conceits or monopolistic control; (f)influence
catastrophic social upheaval, take
their genisis in the deadly germ that came out of The Enlightenment, and
Mr. Darwin's defiantly brutish hypothesis that man is only just another
evolving animal species."[27]
I
could go on and on but I think you get the point. As a stock breeder I
can safely conclude that Darwin offers us nothing of value. Breeders of all livestock
need only concern themselves with the scientific findings of the Czech
monk Mendel (1822-1884) who's careful
experiments in plant breeding (1856) laid the groundwork for an understanding
of the mechanisms of heredity. Science based upon observation and fact
rather than fantasy! The pigeons that illustrate this brief article are
evidence enough of the living art that can be and is created by pigeon
fanciers of vision and dedication. Whether long beak or short beak, large
or extremely small stature, ruffled feather, frilled or frizzled feather,
crests, hoods or no feathers each is only a variety and regardless of
how it looks or acts or performs it never ceases to be a pigeon. It
can interbreed with all other varieties of pigeons. You can mix and match,
and change the external package in a thousand different ways but the species
is fixed and speciation will never take place and more to the point can
never take place!
Figure
15"Satinette" a work of
living art. Constantly refined through the work of dedicated pigeon fanciers and not as Darwin
would wish us to believe " the chance accumulation of mutations and
advantageous features". These birds are bred to a recognized and
established standard because of the vision of countless pigeon fanciers
around the world applying the principals first discovered by the Catholic
monk Mendel! Photo courtesy of Ronda Mariani.
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