Page 229 - The Error of the Evolution of Species

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

The photographs in question originated with various re-

searchers who carried out experiments on the moths in the
last half century, and were determined to have been used
taken using either one of two different fraudulent tech-
niques.
One was to stick dead moths to a tree trunk with pins
or glue (the method preferred by many researchers after
Kettlewell). 298 Photographs of the affixed moths were later

duly used in books, with no explanation given, as if these
insects were photographed alive, in their natural environ-
ment. Documentaries and television programs have also
employed this same method in. 299
A second and different technique exploits the fact that
B. betularia moths have only limited ability to move in the
daytime. The insects in a rather somnolent state, have been
placed on tree trunks by hand. Since they remained immo-
bile, they were easy to photograph. As stated by the

Massachusetts University biologist Theodore Sargent, many
photographs have been obtained in this way and used in
textbooks. 300
This practice "is not science, but myth-making," 301 in the
words of Dr. Jonathan Wells, from the California University
Department of Molecular Cell Biology.
This practice cannot, of course, be regarded as in any

way excusable. For the last 20 years, it has been known that

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