From: Steve Bishop (stevebishop_uk@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 31 2003 - 04:26:14 EST
I have recently received an e-mail update from the Discovery institute,
which contains a link to this interesting page:
Backgrounder and summary of publisher’s proposed revision to biology
textbooks
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=1619&program=News-CSC&callingPage=discoMainPage
This document summarizes:
1. Top 10 Corrections Made by Publishers
2. Areas Where Textbooks Contradict Each Other
3. Top Remaining Factual Errors
The e-mail states:
<quote>
TEXTBOOK PUBLISHERS BEGIN CORRECTING FACTUAL ERRORS
Key errors remain, and new contradictions have arisen
After months of claims by Darwinian activists that biology textbooks don't
contain any factual errors about evolution that need to be corrected,
publishers have agreed to fix a number of errors identified by Darwin's
critics.
Top corrections made by publishers include the removal of bogus nineteenth
century embryo diagrams ("Haeckel's embryos") from two of three textbooks
that use them, the dropping from one text of a false claim that animal
embryos have "gill slits," and the elimination of an assertion that Darwin's
theory is the "essence of biology." Two textbooks have also added
acknowledgments that the Miller-Urey origin of life experiment was based on
ideas about the earth's early atmosphere no longer accepted by scientists.
Other textbooks have revised language dealing with such issues as mutations,
homology, evolutionary intermediates, and the evidence of the fossil record,
so as not to overstate the evidence for Darwin's theory.
</quote>
Cheers,
Steve
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