Page 243 - The Error of the Evolution of Species

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

the Industrial Revolution, and no new genes emerged. The

Biston betularia moth has remained the same species, and
there is no question of it turning into any other.
Clearly, nothing in this phenomenon can be described
as an instance of evolution. In any case, some adherents of
Darwinism do accept this truth. Harrison Matthews, the well
known British biologist and evolutionist, says in his fore-
word to the 1971 edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species:

The [peppered moth] experiments beautifully demonstrate
natural selection—or survival of the fittest—in action, but
they do not show evolution in progress; for however the
populations may alter in their content of light, intermedi-
ate or dark forms, all the moths remain, from beginning to
end, Biston betularia. 323

In short, the different colors of this species are examples
of genetic variation. Changing environmental conditions did
not create new genetic information and new characteristics
in the moths. Light-colored moths were indeed better adapt-
ed to clean environments and darker ones to environments

with heavier pollution, but this constitutes no scientific evi-
dence of natural selection.
Therefore, even if the moths' melanism were proved to
be linked to natural selection in some way, this would still
change nothing. All natural selection can do is weed out de-

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