It is our position that the general public does not know that these experiments failed and mistakenly believes that they succeeded. One reason we believe that many people are misinformed is because the biology textbook 4 used at Burroughs High School presents the work of Miller and Fox as if it were long-established scientific proof of how life evolved. In 1953, inspired by the ideas of Oparin and Haldane, Stanley Miller, a graduate student, and his adviser Harold Urey of the University of Chicago set out to demonstrate prebiotic evolution in the laboratory. But even the most promising, technically sophisticated attempts to demonstrate the origin of life from nonliving chemicals are still guesses and gropes in the dark. Repetition of this idea as fact, without sufficient evidence, has done a disservice to new generations by capping their curiosity about a profound and open question.
Many people think that the fossils clearly show the evolution of the horse.
It showed a sequence of mounted skeletons, each one larger and with a more well-developed hoof than the last. Almost a century later, paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson reexamined horse evolution and concluded that generations of students had been misled. We don't know if those science teachers tell their students that this is an obsolete theory that has been discredited, but both books present the figures as if this development of the horse is still believed to be true by paleontologists. It may be possible that generations of students are still being misled. Our critic complained that Dr. Gish presents outdated theories that have long been rejected by evolutionists just to ridicule them.