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I found this in Lee Stroble's "Case for a Creator."
Futuyma Douglas author of "Evolutionary Biology"--page 3--"By coupling undirected, purposeless variation to the blind, uncaring process of natural selection, Darwin made theological or spiritual explanations of the life processes superflous."
The book "Sign of Intellegence" cites several of the other popular text books. The writers cite the terms used to describe evolution; "evolution is random and undirected,"without plan or purpose,"Darwin gave biology a sound scientific basis by attributing the diversity of life to natural causes rather than the supernatural creation."

Looking at "Evolutionary Biology" it's pretty clear that if it's used as a textbook at all, it's in college.

You sort of imply that the books quoted from are used in high schools, etc. I'd bet about a million dollars that none of the books you've quoted are used as textbooks below the college level. I've never heard of a high school with an entire class on "evolutionary biology." I'd really like to see all of the titles and authors.

Evolutionary Biology is a college text, but the one that says "evolution is random and undirected,"without plan or purpose" comes from a 9th and 10th grade book.

I am not sure of the book's title, but you can read about it here

http://www.nmsr.org/essay3b.htm

I will do more research and see what I can dig up, when I get a chance. I am actually supposed to being writing a paper about Stomatal Responses to Water Vapor Pressure in Pinus palustris--sounds fun doesn't it.

I will try and get back to you on it all. But I will say, whether the text be college or highschool, the attempt is the same.

Can I collect? Elementary School gets it all rolling. The dinosaurs lived millions and millions of years ago, the Earth is millions and millions of years old, 3rd grade biology texts have simplistic diagrams pointing from the sea, to a frog, down the line to ape, then human.