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The Error of the Evolution
of Species
The Finch "Evolution" Deception
To recapitulate, following their examination of thou-
sands of ground finches (Geospiza fortis) from the 1970s to
the 1990s, Grant and his team observed no net increase or
decrease in beak size. Moreover, no new species or charac-
teristic emerged, and they observed no net change in any
direction.
An objective scientist's task is to report that fact without
speculation or distortion. It is unacceptable to exaggerate a
phenomenon or to distort its true significance for the sake
of producing evidence for any theory. Yet Professor Grant's
analysis was completely opposed to his findings; he made a
claim of a phenomenon that he never observed, that one
finch species could turn into another in as short a time
frame as 200 years, and he thus cast a serious pall over his
own research. In the words of the California University bi-
ologist Dr Jonathan Wells, this is "exaggerating the evi-
dence." 240
Wells states that Darwinists frequently resort to such
methods, and cites as an example some expressions in a
pamphlet issued by the American National Academy of
Sciences:
A 1999 booklet published by the National Academy de-
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