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Textbooks Cherry-Pick the Evidence for Evolution
This article will look at a just a few of the many distressing instances where textbooks overstate or misrepresent the evidence for evolution.
California Science Center (You Remember Them) Gets Space Shuttle Endeavor
That’s the CSC which had to shell out $110,000 to settle a viewpoint-discrimination lawsuit over the Center’s canceling a screening of Darwin’s Dilemma.
Corticosteroid Receptors in Vertebrates: Luck or Design?
Based on new research by Joseph Thornton and Sean Carroll and colleagues, it increasingly appears that either we are very lucky or we are intelligently designed.
Darwinian Dogmatism Permeates Recent Biology Textbooks
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.
(Not) Making the Grade: An Evaluation of 22 Recent Biology Textbooks and Their Use of Selected Icons of Evolution
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.