to answer your question more directly, its a way for a religiously charged book to count as a science book. I would look ANYTHING up in that book to fact check and bring it up to your teachers, principle, even school board if you can and make as a big of deal out of it as possible, religion has no place in science, nor in the classroom.
the argument being any text book filled with invalid or false information should not be taught in any classroom, a completely valid point.
well, aside from it stating that pi equals 3, the world is flat and resting on pedestals, snakes used to have feet and talk (aramaic apparently), matter CAN be created and destroyed, that two people can spawn the worlds population twice over (once with adam and eve then once again with noah and his family) from the same gene pool without mass amounts of complications (mental retardation paramount among them), and many other discrepancies...not at all >.>
But alas the religious wish to claim that the two can go hand in hand because if it can, that lends more credibility to their god existing. (in their eyes at least) People that make statements like that are the hardest christians to pin down because they claim that the bible is 1)metaphorical or 2)has been changed so many times that it has become slightly fallable. I usually take that and pose it as valid reasoning that the bible would then be a rather unreliable place for fact in either case, but thats another story.
My physics book has the balls to mention religion, and actually suggest that science and religion don't conflict. Am I out of the loop or something, because I'm pretty damn sure they do conflict. And this isn't some ancient book- it is from 2006.
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