School boards challenge textbooks with evolution, big bang theories. (Christian critics claim religious differences)

Insight on the News | February 3, 1997| | Copyright

In America's perennial creation-evolution debate, this school year has been the year of the textbook. "I think the textbook issue is heating up again," says Eugenie Scott, director of the National Center for Science Education in El Cerrito, Calif., the nation's main anticreationist watchdog group. "We've had more calls about textbook problems this year than any other topic."

To avoid disputes about evolution, publishers omit chapters in books shipped to certain states. Some schools glue together offending pages or adhere "educational-aid" labels to texts pointing ...

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