Re: Jonathan Well's Icons of Evolution

From: Jonathan Clarke (jdac@alphalink.com.au)
Date: Tue Apr 10 2001 - 17:57:32 EDT

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    The "Journal of Geoscience education" has, or used to have, a regular
    series on common erros in textbooks, these were typically conceptual
    errors. It was quite enlightening.

    Jon

    george murphy wrote:

    > Adrian Teo wrote:
    >
    >> Check this out:http://www.escape.ca/~dcc/phys/errors.htmlThere was
    >> also an article in our local papers several months ago about a team
    >> of physicists who went through several textbooks and found some
    >> really ridiculous errors, and some pretty substantial ones as well.
    >> Anybody remember that?
    >>
    >> Thanks for the reference. I am of course quite aware that
    >> there are errors in physics texts. I haven't checked out all of
    >> them in this listing but many are of the "factor of c missing",
    >> "vector should have been printed in boldface" &c type. I had
    >> assumed from the reference to such errors in your original posts
    >> that you were referring to errors that had some substantial
    >> connection with evolution. This does not seem to be the case & the
    >> cited errors therefore have nothing to do with "icons of evolution".
    >>
    >>
    >> Shalom,
    >>
    >>
    >> George
    >>
    >> George L. Murphy
    >> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
    >> "The Science-Theology Interface"
    >>
    >>
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