The Peppered Moth Story: Vindicated!
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of June 2012 by Richard Peachey To the great relief of evolutionists everywhere, the beleaguered “peppered moth story” has now been reinstated to its former status of credible evidence for evolution by natural selection. Up to 1998, many evolutionists had
Resisting an Overused Argument for Evolution (Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria)
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of September 2011 by Richard Peachey The letter below was emailed to the Abbotsford Times on September 15, 2011. The Times chose not to publish it (perhaps due to word length). But we hope you’ll find it helpful in your thinking
The Peppered Moth Story: Prime Example of Evolution?
With a special Appendix: University of Chicago evolutionist Jerry Coyne on his discovery of the many flaws in this “icon of evolution”! (following the conclusion of this article) by Richard Peachey IMPORTANT NOTE: The argumentation in the article below requires updating in light of new experimental work by lepidopterist Michael
Do Examples of “Microevolution” Provide Support for Macroevolution?
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of September 2005 Introduced by Richard Peachey Is it legitimate to extrapolate from instances of small-scale change (such as those found in peppered moths, Darwin’s finches, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria) to large-scale changes of the sort that would allow protists to
The Galápagos Finches: Prime Example of Evolution?
by Richard Peachey 1. INTRODUCTION: THE FAMOUS FINCHES The Galápagos Islands are home to a famous group of birds called “Darwin’s finches.” Most taxonomists view these finches as belonging to thirteen separate species within four (or three) genera of a single family (or subfamily). All of the Galápagos finches are