To: Ostlandr
What about the Peppered Moth? This species rapidly changed it's coloration "when coal was King" and then changed back once it's environment wasn't colored by coal soot. The changes only took a few generations, as those moths that didn't adapt were poorly camouflaged and easy targets for predators. >>>
Now to be fair, the Peppered Moth study was found to be bogus years ago. Doesn't mean that evolution is false, tho, it just means that the study was fatally flawed.
To: Phil Connors
"Now to be fair, the Peppered Moth study was found to be bogus years ago."
Not at all. There was nothing wrong with the studies at all.
22 posted on
02/27/2006 5:14:57 AM PST by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
To: Phil Connors
Now to be fair, the Peppered Moth study was found to be bogus years ago.
This is a common creationist misconception. It is based in the fact that a few of the photographs were "staged", however the staging of the photographs was not, as many creationists seem to believe, an attempt to twist facts to suit evidence, but rather simply a means of creating a sufficient colour contrast between two differently coloured insects who normally do not pose in the most effective of positions.
33 posted on
02/27/2006 9:14:24 AM PST by
Dimensio
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To: Phil Connors
46 posted on
02/27/2006 1:35:40 PM PST by
Quark2005
(Confidence follows from consilience.)
To: Phil Connors
"Now to be fair, the Peppered Moth study was found to be bogus years ago. Doesn't mean that evolution is false, tho, it just means that the study was fatally flawed. Actually the study wasn't found to be bogus, the moths were in fact selected. What was found to be artificial was a number of the photos taken of the moths.
410 posted on
03/04/2006 1:38:59 PM PST by
b_sharp
(Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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