Dead Peppered Moths Can’t Evolve, and the Myth About Them Hasn’t Changed Much, Either

Intelligent Design the Future

Sep 10 2018 | 00:13:29

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, biologist Jonathan Wells, author of Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong and Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution, debunks a new study purporting to breathe fresh life into an old and throughly discredited icon of evolution, the peppered moth. Wells also tells how this icon of a moth “evolving” from light to dark still lives on in current textbooks, in the same form many parents probably remember from their school days. Dr. Wells and others have shown that many of these pictures used dead Read More ›

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