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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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