Explore Evolution: the Latest Tactic of the Stealth Creationists
If you are interested in the evolving strategies of the clever creationists at the Discovery Institute I recommend you take the time to read this careful review of their latest disgrace. Therein you can witness a biologist deconstructing the book Explore Evolution, which tries to take advantage of recent legislation in Louisiana that opens the door to “supplemental materials” about evolution. The author shows how this pseudo-textbook gets the science wrong and deliberately attempts to confuse students. The objective seems to be to cast doubt on the scientific method and critical thinking in general, opening the path to the medieval superstitions that the authors would appear to prefer to the teaching of actual biology. This type of critical examination is very helpful to parents who are concerned with keeping this nonsense out of our childrens’s schools, as it exposes the strategies used by the creationists, who have learned to be careful to hide their true motivations and plans.