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The only verbatim Quranic verses in any English-medium book sit in a social studies chapter

Sindh's Social Studies 6 presents creation and evolution as two coequal theories, quoting two Quranic verses with surah and verse citation as evidence, then presents natural selection straight on the following pages without resolving the contradiction. The stated learning outcome makes it curriculum-mandated.

The book sets creation and evolution side by side as two coequal theories, and supports the first by quoting two Quranic verses with surah and verse citation — scripture presented in the evidential slot. It then presents natural selection straight, over the following pages, without ever resolving the contradiction it has just created. The stated learning outcome makes this curriculum-mandated rather than an author's flourish. It sits inside a book that is otherwise near-secular, at 0.3 religious tokens per thousand words.

“There are many theories about the origin of human life. Among them, two are most important. One is the theory about creation and the other is the theory of evolution. Both theories explain the origin of human life.”
Sindh Social Studies 6, 2016 edition

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Source

Sindh Social Studies 6, 2016 edition

The creation-and-evolution material is at printed p. 6 of Social Studies 6.

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Textbook Evidence Project, “The only verbatim Quranic verses in any English-medium book sit in a social studies chapter”. Evidence from 1 textbook (Sindh). Corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from https://textbookevidence.com/findings/scripture-as-evidence/

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