Are you tired of Teaching from an evolutionary
biology textbook in your general biology course?

Alan Gillen, Ed.D. (Pensacola Christian College) was. That's why he teamed up with Frank Sherwin, M.A. (Institute for Creation Research), Paul Madtes (Mount Vernon Nazarene University), and Jay Wile, Ph.D.(Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc.) to write Biology: Revealing Design, Order, and Complexity. This comprehensive general biology textbook, scheduled to be released in the summer of 2010, will be an invaluable resource for the creationist college biology course. It will contain a rigorous treatment of all topics related to a majorslevel general biology course, while at the same time holding the line with a solid creationist view.

Does this mean that evolutionary theory will not be discussed? Of course not! A creation biologist must know evolutionary theory in order to have the ability to discern between testable and untestable predictions set forth by this theory and to understand why some aspects of the theory are so detrimental to the science of biology. Thus, this text will have a rigorous discussion of evolutionary theory. However, unlike most general biology texts, this text will also detail the data related to evolution and show how poorly the overall theory stands up to scientific inquiry.

However, don't be fooled into thinking that this is a "creation versus evolution" textbook. The main focus of the textbook is to provide the student with a detailed discussion of the major topics in general biology, such as the chemistry of biological systems, cytology, molecular genetics, Mendelian genetics, taxonomy, anatomy, and physiology. Unlike the college texts that are available now, however, this text will glorify the Creator from cover to cover, stressing the design that you see throughout God's creation.

In addition, specific topics of interest to creationists will be discussed. For example, while the traditional taxonomic schemes will be discussed in the text, current creationist taxonomic systems will be discussed as well. In addition, callout boxes will highlight the current research being done by creation biologists around the world.

If you want a textbook that gives your students a strong background in general biology and stands firm on the issue of origins, you should definitely look at this book.