Page 547 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

Many studies made after
Kettlewell's experiments
showed that only one type of

these moths rested on tree
trunks; all the other
types preferred the un-
derside of horizontal
branches. Since the 1980s, it

has become widely accepted
that moths rarely rest on tree
trunks. Cyril Clarke and Rory

Howlett, Michael Majerus,
Tony Liebert, Paul Brakefield,
as well as other scientists

Judith Hooper's book have studied this subject
over 25 years. They con-

clude that in Kettlewell's experiment, moths were
forced to act atypically, therefore, the test results could
not be accepted as scientific.

Researchers who tested Kettlewell's experiment came to
an even more striking conclusion: In less polluted areas of
England, one would have expected more light-colored

moths, but the dark ones were four times as many as the
light ones. In other words, contrary to what Kettlewell
claimed and nearly all evolutionist literature repeated,
there was no correlation between the ratio in the moth

population and the tree trunks.

As the research deepened, the dimensions of the scandal
grew: The moths on tree trunks photographed by

Kettlewell were actually dead. He glued or pinned the dead
moths to tree trunks, then photographed them. In truth, be-
cause moths actually rested underneath the branches, it

was not possible to obtain a real photo of moths on tree
trunks. 145

Only in the late 1990s, the scientific world was able to
learn these facts. When the myth of the Industrial
Melanism that had been a feature in biology courses for
decades came to such an end, evolutionists were disap-

pointed. One of them, Jerry Coyne, said he felt very dis-
mayed when he learned of the fabrications with regard to
the peppered moths. 146

The photographs of peppered moths on tree bark, published for
decades in biology texts, were actually of dead moths that Kettlewell
had glued or pinned to the trees.

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