Creationists have adapted and changed in response to these and other arguments, and now say something about "microevolution" and "macroevolution", which is garbage, but there you go.
Also, the peppered moths in particular are... well... a bit controversial.
TBH, I'd take with a serious grain of salt literally anything that appears in high school biology textbooks. For some reason, a lot of myths keep getting recirculated over and over in those without ever being corrected or removed. Generations of ninth graders are being taught blatant falsehoods like "your tastebuds are divided into discrete sections on your tongue" and "the shape of your earlobe is an inherited trait". These aren't even just oversimplifications, which would be justifiable - they're just wrong.
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Also, the peppered moths in particular are... well... a bit controversial.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/18/science/staple-of-evolutionary-teaching-may-not-be-textbook-case.html
TBH, I'd take with a serious grain of salt literally anything that appears in high school biology textbooks. For some reason, a lot of myths keep getting recirculated over and over in those without ever being corrected or removed. Generations of ninth graders are being taught blatant falsehoods like "your tastebuds are divided into discrete sections on your tongue" and "the shape of your earlobe is an inherited trait". These aren't even just oversimplifications, which would be justifiable - they're just wrong.