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NAD LAUNCHES NEW SCIENCE TEXTBOOK
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ho knew the evening news during spring of 2020 would be dominated by reports with vocabulary such as antibodies, virus, lipid membranes and vaccines? It takes many of us back to science classes in school.
Understanding the news calls for a good science education. The North American Division Office of Education, in partnership with Kendall Hunt Religious Publishing, has developed a timely and robust creationbased high school biology textbook, ByDesign Biology,
to support student learning of introduces students to the core real-life issues. tenets of both creationism and ByDesign evolution in Biology a balanced provides a presentation. coherent The textbook science explores the curriculum flaws of the acknowledging materialistic God as evolutionary Creator. It view of extends the origins, as well curriculum of as some of the the successful challenges Adventist posed for a elementary creationists science series worldview. Larry Blackmer produced in Larry recent years. Blackmer, This new biology textbook ByDesign Biology textbook of more than 700 pages of coordinator and former NAD quality, research-backed vice president for education, scientific information was science teacher and Idaho developed by contributing conference resident, states, “I authors, most with doctorates don’t think there’s a quality in their fields, and the Kendall balanced textbook right now Hunt Publishing team. on the market that’s creationByDesign Biology provides based. Most of the [Christian honest information on two science] texts are antiworldviews that are often at evolution with a pejorative odds: biblical creationism and message that does not provide evolutionary Darwinism. fully the picture of the Adventist Christian competing worldviews.” students entering higher This is a rigorous, current education, particularly and timely textbook that in secular colleges and establishes our faith in the universities, will be inundated belief that God is the creator with evolution as fact. and sustainer of life. ByDesign Biology provides a biblical-based worldview and Dennis Plubell, North Pacific helps them understand the Union Conference vice president for other worldviews they will education encounter. ByDesign Biology 23
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