From Salvo online: Zombie Killer: The “Icons of Evolution” Have Joined the Ranks of the Undead:
You cannot kill all zombies simply by destroying their brains. Only intelligence will kill the really nasty ones.
About fifteen years ago, I read Jonathan Wells’s Icons of Evolution (2000). The sheer brazenness of the outdated information that continued to be paraded in decades of textbooks dealing with evolution was striking—even to a longtime textbook editor (now retired) like me. For example, Ernst Haeckel’s doctored vertebrate embryo illustrations from more than a century ago (intended to cement the idea of common descent) were the best modern evolutionary science could offer.1 Which says something about modern evolutionary science.
The textbook publishing industry depends on a simple set of facts:
• Parents are required by law to present their children to the local public school system unless they can afford other legally acceptable arrangements.
• Homeowners and businesses are required to fund the public system.
• The system needs textbooks.
• Textbook authors, usually successful teachers, are well rewarded.
Thus, the opportunities for soft corruption (stale, dated content that lingers year after year) are vast and inevitable. Some such stuff is doubtless defended by pressure groups, anxious to retain a discredited icon that supports their cause. More.
But now let’s look at evolution in the daylight, including an interview with Jonathan Wells.
More on Jonathan Wells’s book, Zombie Science