[CobaltBlue]

I'd like to take a look at that textbook. Not difficult, Nova is two miles from me, I could just drive there and look in the bookstore.

If they are teaching the moths and the primordial soup theory, then I would have to ask why.

[VadeRetro]

The Miller experiment was a demonstration that very simple inorganics will combine to make complex organics with no "intelligent design" involved. That was an impressive beginning to abiogenesis research and still relevant. (However, it doesn't have an awful lot to do directly with Darwin's theory of how life forms diversify.)

The peppered moths are a fine example of natural selection. I don't think they really speciated, so someone can yell "That's just microevolution!" and it's true as far as it goes. But macroevolution is just lots of accumulated micro-.