Re: [asa] (is evolution "anti-religious"?) Discovery Institute against harmonizing?

I fail to see the relevance here. One is an issue of faith, the other
an issue of science. That some have been led to believe that the
peppered moth was a case of fraud, unfortunately is ignoring the facts
of the case.

I understand how some creationists still promote these ill informed
arguments, often unaware of the facts of the case. That's unfortunate
but Kettlewell's experiments, while not perfect, form an excellent
example of how to detect the causal factors involved in the shift in
coloration in the peppered moth. In fact, recent experiments by
Majerus has shown that Kettlewell was indeed correct, as many of those
involved in melanism research had already argued. Majerus's
experiments addressed some of the objections raised and showed that
bird predation remained a strong factor.

http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/Research/majerus.htm

Sadly enough little of this information seems to have reached the
creationist communities.

Pim

On Dec 15, 2007 8:26 AM, Dick Fischer <dickfischer@verizon.net> wrote:

> Aren't you the one who called me a "heretic"? Does pot call kettle black?
> Or to be more scriptural: "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your
> brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye (Luke
> 6:41)?"

> Dick Fischer
>

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