Graeme
Aaron C said:

I don't think that speciation requires much in the way of specialized

training. It may require that things be pointed out to the layman, but so does subatomic physics.

Sub-atomic physics isn't intuitively obvious either, so that fits in fine with what I'm saying. The laymen DOES need to have these things pointed out, and can't be expected to know them as easily as watching a sunrise or dropping a banana and seeing it fall. (Bet you thought I was going to say "apple", didn't you?)

Something does not have to be intuitively obvious to be a fact. It was not

obvious to anybody for thousands of years that the Earth circled the Sun. From the limited observational abilities of even the most learned astronomer, such a view would not have been immediately obvious.

I think you're missing my point, which was not about facts, but about the way people react emotionally to facts. Whether or not evolution is a fact has no bearing on whether or not people can make a cult out of it.