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Jonathan Cotton: Are biology textbooks making the grade? The answer next on today's Creation Moment. And now here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: Public educators maintain that creationism should be rejected as unscientific, not to be taught in the classroom. Now the tables have been turned on this argument by a researcher who graded the scientific content of 10 high school biology textbooks. Dr. Jonathan Wells of the Discovery Institute evaluated 10 textbooks published between 1998 and 2000 on the basis of scientific accuracy. With two earned PhDs, Dr. Wells fully recognized that, like any other scientific theory, the theory of evolution would have to be revised or discarded if it is not supported by the facts. Each textbook was graded on how it dealt with seven evidences offered for evolution.

Not one has stood the test of time. His F grading outnumbered all other grades except for two that were D's. He found that the F graded books dogmatically treated evolution as unquestionable fact and uncritically relied upon logical fallacies. For example, Darwin's tree of life, supposedly showing common ancestry for all living things, was presented as a fact. None of the F textbooks mentioned the Cambrian explosion of complex, earlier than simple life forms. The discovery was made in 1909 and fully reported in the 1970s. It completely devastates Darwin's idea of common ancestry. Dr. Wells has thoroughly documented creationist claims that public school science textbooks tend to misrepresent the evidence for evolution and present the theory in a dogmatic manner.

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