Misrepresenting my actual words, Cromwell writes:
25%!!! Twenty five percent of peppered moths land on tree trunks in the wild. This is a "load of mothballs". I think that you've got your ratios mixed up. And you insult Jonathan Wells!
Either Cromwell is deliberately building a strawman, or he didn't comprehend what I wrote. At least he understood the aspersion on Wells' character.
Cromwell writes:
Its not the percentage of the moths having been seen by Majerus landing on exposed parts of the tree trunks.
I didn't say it was. Cromwell, how about addressing what I actually wrote, instead of your strawman version of it? Oh, the thoughts you'd be thinkin', you could be another Lincoln, if ....
Stumbling upon the truth, Cromwell writes:
Jonathan wells uses sensationalism..."Peppered moths do not even land on tree trunks" He's selling his material ,as newspapers and product advertisers do.
Indeed, he is. Or as I put it quite succinctly in my previous post, "Clearly, Wells is a bald-faced liar."
Cromwell writes:
Although not an entirely true statement he is close.
Nice to see you recognize that Wells' claim is "not an entirely true statement". A bald-faced "not entirely true statement". Now, if you could only understand Majerus' data, you'd see that Wells wasn't even close.
Now, why is Wells selling sensationalism instead of doing science? Here are his motives, from a sermon Wells wrote for the Unification Church (colloquially known as the 'Moonies' after their spiritual leader, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whom they refer to as their "True Father"):
Wells writes:
At the end of the Washington Monument rally in September, 1976, I was admitted to the second entering class at Unification Theological Seminary. During the next two years, I took a long prayer walk every evening. I asked God what He wanted me to do with my life, and the answer came not only through my prayers, but also through Father's many talks to us, and through my studies. Father encouraged us to set our sights high and accomplish great things.
He also spoke out against the evils in the world; among them, he frequently criticized Darwin's theory that living things originated without God's purposeful, creative activity. My studies included modern theologians who took Darwinism for granted and thus saw no room for God's involvement in nature or history; in the process, they re- interpreted the fall, the incarnation, and even God as products of human imagination.
Father's words, my studies, and my prayers convinced me that I should devote my life to destroying Darwinism, just as many of my fellow Unificationists had already devoted their lives to destroying Marxism. When Father chose me (along with about a dozen other seminary graduates) to enter a Ph.D. program in 1978, I welcomed the opportunity to prepare myself for battle.
Are you buying what Wells is selling?
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