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

On Dec 17, 2007 6:59 AM, Donald F Calbreath <dcalbreath@whitworth.edu> wrote:
> Michael and ASA:
>
> Sorry about the delay - I have had problems with my email system.
>
> Perhaps "fraud" is too strong and I apologize. But it has been well-documented that peppered moth behavior was not the way it had been represented in the paper. And it is true that the moths were glued to the trees. I would question how reliable that sort of "data" should be considered.
>

Perhaps you can provide us with some explicit examples as to how the
peppered moth behavior was not the way it had been represented in the
paper. Which paper is this since Kettlewell wrote a series of papers
and experiments. What moths were glued to the trees and for what
purpose. Details would help understand the validity of your
statements.

Let me help you

<quote>As I am one of the evolutionary biologists who study peppered
moths, I feel obliged to comment. Charges of fraud cannot be left
unchallenged ... In your paper, Ms. Katrina Rider asserts the peppered
moth story is a hoax. She conveys the impression that dead moths were
glued to trees as part of a conspiracy of deception. She seems unaware
that moths were glued to trees in an experiment to assess the effect
of the density (numbers) of moths on the foraging practices of birds.
Taken out of the context of the purpose of the experiment, the
procedure does sound ludicrous. </quote>

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Bruce Grant
Professor of Biology
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia

Type to put these myths about the peppered moths to rest, creationists
have done already enough damage here.

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Received on Mon Dec 17 11:33:55 2007