This article will look at a just a few of the many distressing instances where textbooks overstate or misrepresent the evidence for evolution.
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Many textbooks surveyed contained what I would call "faux-critical thinking exercises," where students are asked to investigate the evidence, but only in a one-sided fashion.
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Unfortunately, as this review has made clear, biology textbooks have a long way to go. Parents, students and educators who seek accuracy and objectivity in evolution-education will have to continue to be a "royal pain in the fanny" of textbook publishers.
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Governor Perry of Texas wrongly thinks public schools in his home state teach creationism, but he seems unaware that his own education commissioner is trying to stifle scientific criticisms of Darwin.
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When the facts are fairly assessed, we see that the issues Virelli raises pose no challenge to teaching evolution scientifically and objectively in public schools.
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By disregarding the Texas Science Standards, Ellington's approach would deprive students of the very teaching methods that could solve the problems he rightly observes are facing science education today.
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University of Texas, Austin molecular biologist Andy Ellington has posted a "live-blog" from the Texas State Board of Education hearing on whether to adopt curricula that teach evolution in a one-sided fashion.
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Eugenie Scott conveniently claims that the courts have insulated evolution from any form of critique in public schools -- but the law proves her wrong.
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