So being a so-called expert or teacher does not guarantee what they teaching is actually true. The biology text being taught and supported by Clarence Darrow and the ACLU (who hired him) one allegedly "expert" conclusion reads:
“At the present time there exist upon the earth five races or varieties of man, each very different from the other in instincts, social customs, and, to an extent, structure. These are the Ethiopian or negro type, originating in Africa; the Malay or brown race, from the islands of the Pacific; the American Indian; the Mongolian or yellow race, including the natives of China, Japan, and the Eskimos; and finally, the highest type of all, the Caucasians, represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America.” (Hunter, Civic Biology, 1914)
It was supported by the ideas of people like Huxley, Proveos, Sanger, Herbert Spencer and more alleged enlightened social and scientific heroes, but would you really want this taught to YOUR children as established fact? Answer right you pass answer wrong you fail...Darwinians believed it and taught it as a fact, but was it? Is it? Seriously think about this!
There are two other questions one could ask about this. First, how many of the people who read or were taught this passage from
Civic Biology actually believed it
because the experts said it was true? After all, since about 1960 American public schools have taught that the Earth is about 4560 million years old and that living things have evolved by the transmutation of species, because that it what the experts say, but more than 40% of Americans are young Earth creationists, and this percentage has not changed significantly in the last 35 years.
We have all been thoroughly indoctrinated into the belief that the Earth is approximately spherical and that it revolves around the Sun with an orbital period of a year. All the experts agree on these facts, and even most creationists accept them. However, 'a third of the British population still believes that the sun goes round the earth', and a further 19% 'believe it takes one month for the Earth to go around the sun' (Richard Dawkins:
Unweaving the Rainbow, page 32;
The Greatest Show on Earth, page 434). As for the shape of the Earth, there are contributors to these forums who reject the opinion of the experts and who say that the Earth is flat. If people are so resistant to teaching and indoctrination by experts, what makes you think that they believed what
Civic Biology said about the supposed races of man?
Second, why do you think that
Civic Biology was wrong about the supposed human races and our modern ideas, in which there are no true races of man and there is more genetic diversity in Africa than in all the other continents put together, are more nearly correct? During the early 19th century, experts in geology and biology agreed that the sedimentary rocks were deposited by Noah's flood, or at least that geological processes were catastrophic, and that biological species were immutable? Now, 200 years later, experts in these sciences say that there was no worldwide flood, that geological processes are actualistic and gradualistic and that the fossiliferous sedimentary rocks were deposited over more than 500 million years, and that living things have evolved by the transmutation of species. Which of these two sets of experts do you agree with, those of the early 19th century, or those of 2017? If you think that the more recent experts are not automatically more likely to be correct, what grounds are there for thinking that modern ideas about human races are more correct than those presented in
Civic Biology?
A third question: who was Proveos?
