{"id":8297,"date":"2003-04-30T18:27:48","date_gmt":"2003-04-30T18:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/?post_type=catbird-seat&#038;p=8297"},"modified":"2020-04-23T18:28:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:28:56","slug":"textbook-facts","status":"publish","type":"catbird-seat","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/catbird-seat\/textbook-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Textbook &#8220;Facts&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\nAs a textbook editor and proofreader, I am sometimes asked to verify statements presented as facts. This involves considerable research, and the national company asking for this proof requires that a statement presented as fact be verified by <em>five<\/em> other reliable sources (materials generally in use for years and \u201cproofed\u201d by previous researchers) and that those five sources <em>all <\/em>agree that the statement is a fact. While this sounds quite difficult, it all depends on the subject of the statement.\u00a0 As Christians, we daily confront disbelief in a Creator. Nowhere is this dismissal of an Almighty Being more evident than in textbooks. Recently, I perused several outside science reading materials for a national school chain. In Science Encyclopedia, written for elementary schools by DK Publishing, Inc., I found this \u201cexplanation\u201d of views of the Earth\u2019s origin in the chapter titled, \u201cHow Life Began\u201d: \u201cThroughout history, people have wondered how life on Earth began. <em>Some people<\/em> (italics mine) believe it was created by God. <em>Scientists <\/em>(italics mine) think that the first simple life forms were the result of chemical reactions\u2026\u201d The remainder of the chapter not only makes no mention of any other support for its view, but presents no other theories (and there are several). The inference that people who believe God created the Earth cannot be scientists is a non-intellectual bias. And guess what? I was able to \u201cverify\u201d that statement as \u201cfact\u201d with the first five sources I went to! So I decided to verify my position that God created life. I had to turn to books by Henry Morris, John C. Whitcomb, or the Institute for Creation Research. These verified my position, <em>but they are not on the list of reliable sources for verification from the textbook company.<\/em>I present this information to you in hopes that it will spur you to investigate fully the textbooks your children use. For some interesting looks at textbook errors, go to web sites of the Texas Public Policy Foundation or to Mesa\/Meoc Textbook Review Project.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8297","catbird-seat","type-catbird-seat","status-publish","hentry","category-from-the-catbird-seat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Textbook &quot;Facts&quot; - Aletheia Baptist Ministries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/catbird-seat\/textbook-facts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Textbook &quot;Facts&quot; - Aletheia Baptist Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As a textbook editor and proofreader, I am sometimes asked to verify statements presented as facts. 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