Re: textbooks

Glenn Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Tue, 02 Dec 1997 21:54:40 -0600

At 12:24 AM 12/2/97 -0600, bpayne@voyageronline.net wrote:
>Mon, 1 Dec 1997 17:48:28 -0600 (CST) masters@ballistic.com wrote:
>
>> In the past year I have
>> surveyed over twenty high school and college level biology textbooks and
>> HAVE NOT FOUND ONE SINGLE BOOK WHICH STATES THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST. In
>> fact, the books never mention the topic of "God." They make no statements
>> for or against the idea of God. They simply outline the logic of evolution
>> and discuss the various mechanisms as we understand them today. The topic
>> of evolution is treated in exactly the same manner as all other topics: how
>> cells divide, how cells reproduce, how cells die, how cells evolve, and so
>> on.
>
>I don't think so. My daughter is now taking biology at Samford
>University in Birmingham, AL. From _Biology_, Sylvia S. Mader, Wm. C.
>Brown Publishers, 5th ed., p 18:

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I would agree with Bill here. I have seen lots of geology and anthropology
books which denigrate the Scripture and Christian beliefs. I really don't
want to go look them up now, but if you insist, I will.

glenn

Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man

and

Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm