Page 11 - New Research Demolishes Evolution

"Industrial Melanism"

In 1986 Douglas Futuyma published a book, The Biology of Evolution, which is accept-
ed as one of the sources explaining the theory of evolution by natural selection in the
most explicit way. The most famous of his examples on this subject is about the colour of
the moth population, which appeared to darken during the Industrial Revolution in
England.
According to the account, around the outset of the Industrial Revolution in England,
the colour of the tree barks around Manchester was quite light. Because of this, dark-
coloured moths resting on those trees could easily be noticed by the birds that fed on
them and therefore they had very little chance of survival. Fifty years later, as a result of
pollution, the barks of the trees had darkened, and this time the light-coloured moths
became the most hunted. As a result, the number of light-coloured moths decreased
whereas that of the dark-coloured ones increased since the latter were not easily noticed.
Evolutionists use this as a great evidence to their theory. Evolutionists, on the other hand,
take refuge and solace in window-dressing by showing how light-coloured moths
"evolved" into dark-coloured ones.
However, it should be quite clear that this situation can in no way be used as evidence
for the theory of evolution, for natural selection did not give rise to a new form that had
not existed before. Dark coloured moths existed in the moth population before the
Industrial Revolution. Only the relative proportions of the existing moth varieties in the
population changed. The moths had not acquired a new trait or an organ, which would
cause a "speciation". In order to have a moth turn into another living species, a bird for
example, new additions would have had to be made to the genes. That is, an entirely sep-
arate genetic program would have had to be loaded so as to include information about
the physical traits of the bird.
The example of the moths
of the Industrial Revolution
is advanced as the greatest
evidence for evolution by
natural selection. However,
evolution is out of the ques-
tion in this example, as no
new moth species is
formed. On the left are trees
and moths of the pre-
Industrial Revolution era,
and on the right are those of
the post-Industrial
Revolution era.

HARUN YAHYA
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