This Listverse list of eight examples of “evolution in action” had people writing to wonder if it is some kind of a spoof. It features stuff like this:
Studying evolution can take decades but occasionally change happens incredibly rapidly. The Blue Moon Butterfly (Hypolimnas bolina) of the Samoan islands was being attacked by a parasite which destroyed male embryos. This led to a gender imbalance whereby males made up only 1% of the butterfly population. However within ten generations (~1 year) males had returned to 40% of the population. This is not because the parasite has disappeared, it is still present, but it is no longer deadly to male embryos. This case shows how a mutation giving an advantage can rapidly spread throughout a population. Any male with the ability to survive infection would be able to mate with a great many females, due to the paucity of other males, and spread his immunity through the gene pool.
Okay … so they stopped being Blue Moon butterflies and evolved into … what?
Oh wait, they went back to the same old flutterby and did the same old Blue Moon business.
Yep, Darwinism. Just like we said. Not the way big changes happen.
By the way, Listverse was where a book by ID theorist Mike Behe, a Lehigh biochemist, was dubbed more dangerous than Hitler. Actually, both his Darwin’s Black Box and Edge of Evolution are good books to read if you are serious about studying evolution – but not dangerous to a person with a working mind.
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