Textbooks Cherry-Pick the Evidence for Evolution

In presenting their case for evolution, the textbooks reviewed in our 2011 textbook report, "An Evaluation of 22 Recent Biology Textbooks and Their Use of Selected Icons of Evolution," repeatedly cherry-pick the data to support evolution. There are more examples of this than I could possibly ever hope to have time or space to discuss here on ENV. The report details many such examples, but this article will highlight just a few of the many distressing instances where textbooks overstate or...