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Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

ed as being surprising. 285 This was confirmed by other stud-

ies carried out by American biologists in the same period. 286
Furthermore, Kettlewell had accepted that there was a drop
in melanism in moths, before lichens returned with the
elimination of air pollution in the 1970s. 287
Had Kettlewell's and evolutionists' claims been true,
lichens would resumed their place on trees as air pollution
was eradicated, after which light-colored moths would again

come to constitute the majority. First, in other words, it was
essential for moths to have places to rest on and hide in.
However, it was definitively demonstrated that this was not
the case. For example, Professor Bruce Grant and his col-
leagues showed that the ratio of light-colored moths ex-
ceeded 93% in a region with a very sparse lichen covering. 288
They made an important comment: "We suggest that the
role of lichens has been inappropriately emphasized in
chronicles about the evolution of melanism in peppered

moths." 289
Theodore Sargent from Massachusetts University and his
team stated that the level of melanic moths had recently
dropped in North America, and that this was perplexing in
the light of the classical scenario. 290
In short, the presence or absence of lichens has no ef-
fect on moths. Kettlewell's thinking that lichens were a part

of the supposed evolutionary process was a product of an-
other error, as you'll soon see.

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