I agree that it's a ridiculous textbook, but these "point and laugh at the stupid believers" articles get a bit tiring sometimes.<p>I'm in Kansas, a typical family goes to church on Sunday. There are a <i>lot</i> of Christians around here, but I've never come across such a science textbook (you can bet I would have picked it up and looked it in if I had).<p>To mean anything, the article really should at least <i>try</i> to put some kind of figure on the number of kids actually being educated from this book today. I'm pretty sure it's the exception rather than the rule among Christians to endorse that kind of silly science.<p>It almost looks like these scientists go out to find the weirdest possible examples they can (and there are some weird ones) and then hold them up as a representative sample. Not a good example of how science should work.<p>I can't resist linking to this classic article about how even the conventional descriptions of electricity "moves from the negative to the positive" are basically wrong: <a href="http://amasci.com/miscon/elect.html" rel="nofollow">http://amasci.com/miscon/elect.html</a>