[BrandtMichaels]

What offends me about the peppered moths (as well as several other evolutionary icons) is their complete and total failure to show any evidence for macro-evolution yet when read by a layman that is exactly what is intended.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"What offends me about the peppered moths (as well as several other evolutionary icons) is their complete and total failure to show any evidence for macro-evolution yet when read by a layman that is exactly what is intended."

No it isn't. The peppered moth studies was NEVER used to demonstrate speciation. Ever. They have always been used to show the efficacy of natural selection, nothing more.

What offends scientists (the vast majority (95%) of whom accept evolution) is the ignorant attacks on scientific methodology by those who have utter disrespect for how science is done. What makes them afraid? Scientists are afraid these same buffoons will be successful in gutting science education even further than it has been. It's bad enough that the postmodernist Left despises science; it's equally as destructive when it's the postmodernist Right doing the assaulting.