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Related: About this forumFundamentalist Biology Textbook Publisher Drops Claim That Scottish Lake Monster Is Real
Pity the poor Loch Ness Monster! Not only has he (or she) been reportedly stuck in that gloomy, cold lake for decades, now the beastie has been unceremoniously tossed out of a leading creationist biology book at least in the European edition.
As reported by The Herald of Glasgow, Scotland, the newest editions of Biology 1099 textbooks published by Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) out of Madison, Tenn., are absent lessons that the Loch Ness Monster is not only a real creature, but is still living today.
A previous edition of the book, which is popular with Christian fundamentalist educators and home-schoolers, asked: Are dinosaurs alive today? Scientists are becoming more convinced of their existence. Have you heard of the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland? Nessie for short has been recorded on sonar from a small submarine, described by eyewitnesses, and photographed by others. Nessie appears to be a plesiosaur.
Lessons like that, and another since-removed claim that a Japanese whaling boat once caught a dinosaur, are intended to debunk evolution because they prove that various organisms didnt go extinct as legitimate scientists have said.
https://blog.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/nessie-nixed-fundamentalist-biology-textbook-publisher-drops-claim-that
As reported by The Herald of Glasgow, Scotland, the newest editions of Biology 1099 textbooks published by Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) out of Madison, Tenn., are absent lessons that the Loch Ness Monster is not only a real creature, but is still living today.
A previous edition of the book, which is popular with Christian fundamentalist educators and home-schoolers, asked: Are dinosaurs alive today? Scientists are becoming more convinced of their existence. Have you heard of the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland? Nessie for short has been recorded on sonar from a small submarine, described by eyewitnesses, and photographed by others. Nessie appears to be a plesiosaur.
Lessons like that, and another since-removed claim that a Japanese whaling boat once caught a dinosaur, are intended to debunk evolution because they prove that various organisms didnt go extinct as legitimate scientists have said.
https://blog.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/nessie-nixed-fundamentalist-biology-textbook-publisher-drops-claim-that
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Fundamentalist Biology Textbook Publisher Drops Claim That Scottish Lake Monster Is Real (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Jul 2013
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cbayer
(146,218 posts)1. Existence of the Loch Ness monster supports creationism?
Who knew.
Hilarious conclusion:
Personally, I cant wait for the 2017 edition of Biology 1099 when ACE tries to claim that The Flintstones was a documentary.
longship
(40,416 posts)2. Obviously this is a new definition of accelerated education that I've not heard before.
I suspect that their biology units still talk about Arks and vegetarian therapod dinosaurs.
They get no pass on their Loch Ness Monster mea culpa.
okasha
(11,573 posts)3. Of course dinosaurs are alive today.
They just have feathers and fly. (But in order to teach that, they would have to deal with the dreaded "e" word.)
Just personally, I like to think Nessie really is down there in the depths, producing the occasional offspring. Bakker and others have pretty much made the case for warm-blooded dinos, so chilly water temperature isn't necessarily prohibitive.