Science Talk

Budikka666 · Guest

The peppered moth (Biston betularia) has long been a favorite whipping
boy of the creatID movement. As Nick Matzke puts it at
www.pandasthumb.org...........:
http://tinyurl.com/yrp9vh
"In the 1970s-1980s, creationists used to just resort to traditional
obfuscation when confronted with natural selection producing a the
"designed-looking" adaptation of moth camouflage to match their
changing background - creationists would just reply "they're still
moths", purposely avoiding the point of the peppered moth example. But
once they heard that Kettlewell's research and hypothesis were in
trouble, they declared the example a fraud, the illustrative photos a
dastardly fraud, and told the world that the biology textbooks were
lying to the children and that the ID movement's quack science should
be given a place in schools to balance things out. I think Jonathan
Wells probably considered the alleged downfall of the peppered moth
his career achievement."

Now it's trim, it's rested, it's back and it's fighting fit!

Budikka