Since the 1860’s faked embryo drawings have been used by evolutionists to mislead many into believing that Darwinian evolutionary theory is scientifically true. 

“Your eyes could see my embryo” (Psalm 139:16 NJB).


Georges Romanes’ 1892 copy of Ernst Haeckel’s fraudulent embryo drawings, from his book Darwin Illustrated. 

“Watch out that no one deceives you” (Matthew 24:4 NIV).

But unsuspecting people, including schoolchildren, many have been deceived by such drawings purportedly representing actual biological embryos.

Notice what the neutral source Wikipedia reveals:

“Michael Richardson and his colleagues in a July 1997 issue of Anatomy and Embryology, demonstrated that Haeckel falsified his drawings in order to exaggerate the similarity of the phylotypic stage. In a March 2000 issue of Natural History, Stephen Jay Gould argued that Haeckel “exaggerated the similarities by idealizations and omissions.” As well, Gould argued that Haeckel’s drawings are simply inaccurate and falsified. On the other hand, one of those who criticized Haeckel’s drawings, Michael Richardson, has argued that “Haeckel’s much-criticized drawings are important as phylogenetic hypotheses, teaching aids, and evidence for evolution”. But even Richardson admitted in Science Magazine in 1997 that his team’s investigation of Haeckel’s drawings were showing them to be “one of the most famous fakes in biology.”

Some version of Haeckel’s drawings can be found in many modern biology textbooks in discussions of the history of embryology, with clarification that these are no longer considered valid.”—Wikipedia

“What I am saying is true and reasonable” (Acts 26:25 NIV).

Is it “true and reasonable” to continue to recycle Haekel’s faked embryo drawings as thought they are factual? Since the expose’ of Haekel’s faked drawings a generation ago, many biology science books have replaced them with photographs of actual embryos, but they continue misleading people about the actual patterns of vertebrae development. 

“From the soil Yahweh God fashioned all the wild animals and all the birds of heaven” (Genesis 2:19 NJB).

It’s “only by semantic tricks and subjective selection of evidence” by “bending the facts of nature” that it can be asserted that the early stages of vertebrates “are more alike than their adults.” — William Ballard, BioScience, 1976

Direct creation by “Yahweh, the Creator” (Psalm 45:18 NJB) makes sense, in harmony with true scientific facts.