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To: Virginia-American
[from the link A Lying Socialist posted]

Here, read the "Critical Thinking" exercise that they offer on page 241: "There is a saying, 'Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny.' Look up each of the words in the dictionary. Restate the saying in your own words. Explain how this saying relates to evolution."

The fact that Addison-Wesley's writers have interchanged ontogeny and phylogeny might not deserve much attention if it were just an isolated mistake.

Don't ask me to defend the quality of HS-level texts, they're mostly horrible. However, in this case, it sounds like they're using Haeckel as an exercise, not as "dogma". So what's the problem?

137 posted on 08/14/2003 11:29:14 PM PDT by Virginia-American
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To: DittoJed2
meant for you.
138 posted on 08/14/2003 11:30:26 PM PDT by Virginia-American
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To: Virginia-American
The problem is that high schoolers are taught an unproven hypothesis as fact and evolutionists have never shyed away from using deceptive means to indoctrinate the mind-mushed school kids. It starts in 1st grade, Millions of years ago... and continues to college where creationist kids are ridiculed for believing any alternate theory. It is not a scientific theory, it is a religion which is propagated with every bit the force of a cult. Kids aren't taught how to think, they are told what to think and are given no alternative suggestions for how it could be different. This might be acceptable, except for the fact that we who disagree (which is the majority) are forced to pay for this indoctrination. High school texts may be awful, but they are what is shaping the little scientists of tomorrow and they sure aren't allowing any room for other interpretations of the evidence.
168 posted on 08/15/2003 9:07:06 AM PDT by DittoJed2
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