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Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

Scientific American. The article
caused a great stir in the world of
Darwinism. Biologists congratulated

Kettlewell for substantiating so-called "evolu-
tion in action." Photographs showing Kettlewell's
moths on tree trunks were published every-
where. At the beginning of the 1960s, Kettlewell's
story was written into every textbook and would
influence the minds of biology students for four
decades. 141

The strangeness of his assertion was first no-
ticed in 1985 when a young American biologist
and educator, Craig Holdrege, decided to do a
little more research concerning the story of the
peppered moths, which he had been teaching his
students for years. He came across an interesting
statement in the notes of Sir Cyril Clarke,
Kettlewell's close friend, who participated in his
experiments. Clarke wrote:

All we have observed is where the moths do not
spend the day. In 25 years, we have only found
two betularia on the tree trunks or walls adjacent
to our traps. . . 142

This was a striking admission. Judith
Hooper, an American journalist and writer for
The Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times
Book Review, reported on Holdrege's reac-
tion in her 2002 book, Of Moths and Men:

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