[Soliton]

“macroevolutionary” is a creationist straw-man. It suggests a lack of knowledge on your part of basic scientific evolution theory.

It also suggests sourcing from creationist websites and not scientific ones.

I will find it difficult to take you seriously if this is the best you can do.

[aposiopetic]

I got it from a semester long past with Gould and Lewontin, the latter of whom, I suspect, got it from Dobzhansky himself. My point is that it is a teacher's job to cut through the nonsense and figure out how to engage students not just for a moment but rather to give them something solid to take with them and build upon (something that the famously gruff Lewontin did every bit as well as his departed superstar colleague).

To recapitulate: It is easy to criticize video-game-era kids for being slow on the uptake. That is why they need to be made to memorize structures and solve equations. My comment was thus about instructional goals and methods: it is easy to provide vivid and even memorable images but considerably harder to inculcate solid knowledge that can't be dislodged by the post hoc rationalizations of the doctrinaire.