All biology books approved by Texas for 1998 local adoption treat evolution as a unifying theme of biology, without citing weaknesses of that theory as Texas law required. Therefore we recommend that schools …

• ADOPT Biology: The Web of Life  • Scott Foresman ©1998.  It covers more standard biology topics and harps least on evolution.
• SUPPLEMENT this text with information on scientific weaknesses in evolutionary theory.
  (We can supply some of this and direct you to more.)
• BYPASS these other Texas-approved books:
  • Biology: The Dynamics of Life   • Glencoe ©1998  — less controversial than the texts below, but less academically rigorous than the Scott book
  • Biology   • Globe Fearon ©1994  — written at a very low reading level, with minimal evolution and minimal biology
• REJECT these inflammatory evolutionary texts:
  

  BAD	Biology: Principles and Explorations   • Holt, Rinehart and Winston ©1998
  BAD	Invitation to Biology   • Worth ©1994
  VERY BAD	Biology: Visualizing Life   • Holt, Rinehart and Winston ©1998
  WORST	Biology: The Living Science   • Prentice Hall ©1998

  
  Below are comparisons of these 1998 texts on several topics.
    ♦ Coverage of biology pioneers
    ♦ Evolutionary slant on standard biology topics
    ♦ Miscellaneous biology topics

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