Elsewhere in this issue the reader will find an extensive and obviously expert review by Dr. Aaldert Mennega of an exciting and most welcome publication, Biology. A Search for Order in Complexity, “designed for use as a textbook for high school biology” This well-written and discerning review is definitely deserving of the special attention of our educators, Christian school board members, and of all parents of high school children exposed to the widespread teaching of evolution.
In the Preface, Dr. Henry M. Morris, President of the Creation Research Society whose Textbook Committee prepared this volume, has the following to say about it:
“Every effort has been exerted to make it both readable and teachable, as well as factually accurate and comprehensive. Evidences for evolution as a theory of origins are accurately presented and considered. At the same time, it is explicit throughout the text that the most reasonable explanation for the actual facts of biology as they are known scientifically is that of Biblical creationism.
“We hope this approach will commend itself first of all to the many private schools seeking to maintain an educational philosophy and methodology consistent with traditional Christian perspectives. We trust it will also be of interest to public school systems desiring to develop a genuine scientific attitude in their students, rather than an artificially-induced evolutionary world-view” (p. XX).
May “God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth,” be pleased to grant that this textbook, so definitely committed to the creationist position, may be an answer to the prayers of those deeply concerned about the inroads the God-dishonoring and soul-destroying theory of evolution is making in our time.
Biology, a Search for Order in Complexity, is published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids. Michigan. Price is $7.95. The book is profusely illustrated and numbers 548 pages. It is certainly to be hoped that those in charge will give this book the most careful consideration for use in our Christian high schools. Parents of high-school children will do well if they provide their sons and daughters as well as themselves with this book to counteract the teaching and influence of evolution so prevalent in our time.
In the Preface, Dr. Henry M. Morris, President of the Creation Research Society whose Textbook Committee prepared this volume, has the following to say about it:
“Every effort has been exerted to make it both readable and teachable, as well as factually accurate and comprehensive. Evidences for evolution as a theory of origins are accurately presented and considered. At the same time, it is explicit throughout the text that the most reasonable explanation for the actual facts of biology as they are known scientifically is that of Biblical creationism.
“We hope this approach will commend itself first of all to the many private schools seeking to maintain an educational philosophy and methodology consistent with traditional Christian perspectives. We trust it will also be of interest to public school systems desiring to develop a genuine scientific attitude in their students, rather than an artificially-induced evolutionary world-view” (p. XX).
May “God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth,” be pleased to grant that this textbook, so definitely committed to the creationist position, may be an answer to the prayers of those deeply concerned about the inroads the God-dishonoring and soul-destroying theory of evolution is making in our time.
Biology, a Search for Order in Complexity, is published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids. Michigan. Price is $7.95. The book is profusely illustrated and numbers 548 pages. It is certainly to be hoped that those in charge will give this book the most careful consideration for use in our Christian high schools. Parents of high-school children will do well if they provide their sons and daughters as well as themselves with this book to counteract the teaching and influence of evolution so prevalent in our time.