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Dark and light
                                                                                                coloured moths
                                                                                                already existed
                                                                                                both before and
                                                                                                after the
                                                                                                industrial
                                                                                                revolution. A
                                                                                                new moth
                                                                                                species did not
                                                                                                emerge.



                                                             BEFORE THE REVOLUTION        AFTER THE REVOLUTION

                      THE STOR Y OF INDUSTRIAL                                    MELANISM
              Evolutionists commonly quote the "Moths of the    the light-coloured moths became the most hunted and
              Industrial Revolution" in 18th century England as an  the number of dark-coloured moths increased.
              "observed example of evolution through natural    This is not an example of "evolution", because natural
              selection". According to the account, around the outset  selection did not give rise to a species that did not
              of the Industrial Revolution in England, the colour of  exist in nature earlier. Dark-coloured moths were
              the tree barks around Manchester was quite light. Since  already extant before the industrial revolution. Here,
              dark-coloured moths resting on                                        we see the moths collected by
              those trees could readily be                                          a moth collector before and
              noticed, they fell easy prey to                                       after the industrial revolution.
              the birds and therefore, were                                         There is only a shift in the
              rare. Yet when the barks of the                                       number of existing moth
              trees darkened as a result of     BEFORE THE REVOLUTION  AFTER THE REVOLUTION  species. Moths did not acquire
              pollution caused by the                                               a new organ or feature to lead
                                           Moth collection showing that both dark-
              industrial revolution, this time                                      to a "change in their species".
                                           coloured and light-coloured moths lived in the
                                           region before the industrial revolution.

                will survive. Yet certainly, this mechanism would not
                cause deer to evolve – it would not transform them into
                another living species, for instance, elephants.
                There is not a single shred of observational evidence
                showing that natural selection has ever caused any living
                thing to evolve.  A noted evolutionist, British
                paleontologist Colin Patterson confesses this fact:
                  No one has ever produced a species by mechanisms of natural
                                                                                      SACRIFICE IN ANIMALS
                  selection. No one has ever got near it and most of the current      Darwin's theory of evolution by means
                  argument in neo-Darwinism is about this question. 17                of natural selection rested on the
                                                                                      supposition that all living things fight a
                                                                                      fierce struggle for survival.
                                                                                                Observations however
                                                                                                 showed that animal
                                                                                                   communities display
                                                                                                     great examples of self-
                                                                                                    sacrifice and
                                                                                                   cooperation. The wild
                                                                                                   oxen that line up in a
                                                                                                   circle to protect their
                                                                                                  young are only one of
                                                                                                  the numerous instances
                                                                                                 of self-sacrifice in nature.
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