Please consider all the information carefully—after all, what you believe about where you camefrom affects your whole world view. This is an important topic indeed.
Introduction
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has recently published aneducator’s guidebook entitled
Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science
. It has been made available to educators throughout America toencourage teachers to incorporate more evolution in their classes and basically teach particles-to-people evolution as a fact. The guidebook statesits purpose in the preface:Many students receive little or no exposure to the most importantconcept in modern biology, a concept essential to understanding keyaspects of living things — biological evolution.However, it’s hard to believe that ‘many students receive little or no exposure’ to evolution. Thewhole secular education system in America (and most other countries around the world) isunderpinned by evolution. After reviewing a number of biology textbooks in the secular schoolsystem, we find they are
all
blatantly pro-evolution. It’s also hard to believe that evolution is an‘essential concept’ in biology, because most ‘key aspects of living things’ were discovered bycreationists.For example,Louis Pasteur discovered that many diseases were caused by germs and showed thatlife comes only from life,Gregor Mendeldiscovered genetics, and Carolus Linnaeus developed themodern classification system, to name but a few creationist pioneers of modern biology [seeTheCreationist Basis for Modern Science]. Also, many highly qualified biological scientists of the present day do not accept evolution—their work is not affected in the slightest by whether or notfish really did turn into philosophers .
Refuting Evolution
seeks to redress the lopsided pro-evolutionary way in which origins are taught.The NAS guidebook, which is compiled by many leading evolutionists, obviously contains the mostup-to-date and major arguments for evolution. Thus, this critique of it addresses currentevolutionary theory as taught in colleges, public schools, and as broadcast by the media.
Refuting Evolution
responds to many of the arguments in
Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science
so that a general critique of evolution can be made available to challenge educators,students, and parents. At the same time,
Refuting Evolution
gives as much positive information asspace permits to defend the creationist position. Thus, it provides a good summary of the argumentsagainst evolution and for creation. It should stimulate much discussion and help students andteachers to think more critically about origins.