"The ideas in these textbooks often flout widely accepted science and historical fact," Klein observed. Creationism and climate change denial are among those ideas: a former student told the Huffington Post that she was told that climate change was a hoax, and the article quotes an ACE textbook as claiming that evolution "has no real scientific basis."
National Center for Science Education - Publicly funded science miseducation in private schools
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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