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The Error of the Evolution
of Species

tific methods were resorted to in order to influence the pub-

lic. The industrial melanism in moths has nothing whatso-
ever to do with the thesis of evolution. Even if, for a mo-
ment, we ignore everything we have learned so far and ac-
cept Kettlewell's tale at face value, it will still be no more
than a supposed proof of so-called evolution.
Dark-colored moths of the species Biston betularia al-
ready existed in England years before the Industrial

Revolution; light-colored individuals represented the major-
ity of the population, and dark individuals were in the mi-
nority. As a result of the Industrial Revolution's increasing
air pollution, this ratio was reversed, and darker forms came
to constitute the majority. Following the introduction of an-
ti-pollution laws in the 1950s and the consequent reduction
in air pollution, the proportions reversed again: Lighter-col-
ored moths again came to represent the majority of the pop-
ulation, as they had before the Industrial Revolution.

Obviously, the change involved not the moths' color, but
their numbers; and this cannot be postulated as proof of
evolution. There have been light and dark B. betularia
moths since observations began, some 200 years ago.
Different-colored individuals interbreed with one another.
The gene pool of this population has contained combina-
tions belonging to different colors right from the outset. In

other words, no genetic information developed as a result of

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