[BC] Errors - was libraries vs on-line research

[Glen Kippel]

On 6/29/06, Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> ------ At 09:07 AM 6/29/2006, Gary Peterson wrote: -------
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> >Back in my chemistry/physics teaching days, I frequently received sample
> >copies of new textbooks from the various publishing companies.  I
> remember
> >that a few of these textbooks were so riddled with errors, that I
> considered
> >them unusable.  Even many of the better texts would have some *wrong*
> >answers to odd-numbered problems in the back.
>
> Then you need to move to Cobb County, GA, where the science textbooks
> have stickers on them warning evolution is just a theory. The sticker
> makes all the evolution errors OK because the students were warned. I
> can assure you all information on Creationism, aka Intelligent
> Design, are absolutely, positively accurate.


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More of your "dry humor" I presume.  Science is always a work in progress.
But, if as the ACLU argued in 1925, "to teach only one theory of origins is
bigotry," why is it not now?  As John Scopes said, "If you limit a teacher
to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only
one thought. ... I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or
theory."