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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

These statements were regarded as a salvation in evolutionist cir-
cles: the theory of evolution by natural selection, which had always
failed in experiments and observations, was portrayed as having
been proved. Grant's research was the theme of Jonathan Weiner's
Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Beak of the Finch. With this book,

Peter and Rosemary Grant were made the icons of Darwinism.
It is true that Professor Grant and his team put in a lot of work in
the Galápagos Islands. Yet, for some reason their care and attention in
the field were not reflected when it came to analyzing their results.
They made a serious error by evaluating their discoveries not in the
light of science, but in that of their evolutionist preconceptions.
Let us now consider the evolutionists' errors on this subject, espe-
cially those of Professor Grant and the National Academy of Sciences.

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As we have already made clear, El Niño affects the western re-
gions of North and South America once every few years, and there is
heavy rainfall in the Galápagos Islands at such times. This leads to
luxurious plant growth and abundant seeds. Finches are thus easily
able to obtain the seeds they need. Their numbers therefore increase
during rainy periods.
Grant and his colleagues witnessed just such a situation in 1982-
1983. With the rain there was an abundance of seeds, and the beak size
in medium ground finches returned to its previous value to before the
drought of 1977. This astonished evolutionists, who were expecting
regular growth in beak size.
The explanation for the change in the average size of the
Galápagos finches' beaks is this: in years of drought when seeds are
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