@Quehoniaomath,
1.Piltdown was exposed by folks within science and it was originally perpetrated by a lawyer and a con man. It was called a "missing link" by newspapers and was originally underpinned by a well respected priest scientist (who happened to be wrong as it turned out).
Noone can prevent against hoaxes, they occur all the time by those wishing to benefit financially or wanting to try to discredit science.
., IN MY OPINION, hoaxes ARE
NOT A REFUTATION OF SCIENCE, THEY ARE MOST OFTEN A BEAUTIFUL DEMONSTRATION OF HOW SCIENCE IS SELF "CLEANING",AND HOW THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND FALSIFICATION ACTUALLY WORKS.
So far ALL hoaxes have been uncovered by science (including those that were perped by Creationists (remember the Paluxey footprints?
or the "300 million year old "human fossil" in a coal mine?) and the IDers like Michael Behe-{remember irreducible complexity???}.
-------------------------------------- your other "point" of discussion
2"Peppered moths" are an example of a unique means of natural selection, not necessarily evolution. Peregrine falcon predation of wild pigeons in California are another example from which we can develop fairly accurate "selection coefficients" as selection agents affect he reduction of one form of a species while another form is left to expand.
The three spined stickleback fish is another example .
Selection methods require long term investments for research (The peppered moth data is taking over 200 years to show how moths can increase one polymorphic form over anither due to changes in the environment.
The fact that peppered moths began being selected for the dark winged form as industrial air pollution took over Europe and the US was a pretty goo field study. To see that the SAME selection coefficient could be used to calculate the return of the white peppred wing form (as air pollution began being claned up in the 1970's) was amazing.
You have NO ammo to discuss anything against selection coefficients of polymorphic species. (In fact, when Haldane used the peppered moth as an example of industrial melanism--he NEVER claimed that moths were EVOLVING a new form. The two forms of the moth already existed in specific pre industrial ratios . Haldane merely talked about how NATURL SELECTION can work.
Kids in high school biology easily understand this concept, why don't you (and gungasnake?) You seem to act like its a big "gotcha" when peppered moths began to readjust their numbers du to changes in environments.ACTUALLY its just the contrary to your ignorance. Peppered moths demonstrate just one means of natural selection. Selection of wild pigeons with one coloration pattern by peregrines , is another. Sean Carroll states that industrial melanism (or any sort of environmentally driven selection) is not so much an example of what is mutationally possible (that's kinda a "genetic no-brainer"). Its an example more of what is ecologically necessary.