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The Error of the Evolution
of Species

mental heat better, they are better adapted to smoky envi-

ronments. This phenomenon is known as thermal
melanism. 306 Every living thing has been created with sys-
tems and forms to allow it to survive in the environment
where it lives. For example, the two-spotted ladybird is seen
to lighten in color in low temperatures and to darken in
high temperatures. 307 In other words, ladybirds' colors can
change and darken according to temperature, which rises in

tttline with air pollution.
The clear significance of this has been known for long
time. Melanism in moths may come about under the impact
of very different factors beyond those claimed by Kettlewell.
Indeed, three biologists—Theodore Sargent, Craig Millarand
David Lambert—set out these likely factors in a paper pub-
lished in 1998: These include probable difference in the
moths' and/or in their larvae's tolerances towards toxic or
harmful chemical substances, and their sensitivity to para-

sites. These three researchers evaluated the case of the
Industrial-Revolution moths, mythologized by evolutionists,
in these terms: "There is little persuasive evidence, in the
form of rigorous and replicated observations and experi-
ments, to support this explanation at the present time." 308
Similar views have been expressed by many other sci-
entists. According to the Italian biologists Giuseppe

Sermonti and Paola Catastini, "Kettlewell's experiments do

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