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​The State Board of Education met yesterday to debate which supplemental materials the state should use to update its outdated science textbooks. To make things easier, before the meeting, the board's choices were narrowed down by allegedly reliable panels of stakeholders. But when it cames to a biology panel making its recommendations, an evolutionary skeptic named Dr. David Shormann -- who happens to run a Christian math and science education software company and authored the book "The Exchange of Truth: Liberating the World From the Lie of Evolution" -- appears to have had a lot of input. Proof, you say? Well, how about a series of challenges the biology panel made Thursday to a biology supplement submitted by publisher Holt McDougal, a division of publishing giant Houghton Mifflin? The alleged errors in the textbook submitted by the panel happen to be pointed out by Shormann in a separate review. Verbatim.

​The State Board of Education met yesterday to debate which supplemental materials the state should use to update its outdated science textbooks. To make things easier, before the meeting, the board's choices were narrowed down by allegedly reliable panels of stakeholders. But when it came to a biology panel making its recommendations, an evolutionary skeptic named Dr. David Shormann -- who happens to run a Christian math and science education software company and authored the book "The Exchange of Truth: Liberating the World From the Lie of Evolution" -- appears to have had a lot of input. Proof, you say? Well, how about a series of challenges the biology panel made Thursday to a biology supplement submitted by publisher Holt McDougal, a division of publishing giant Houghton Mifflin? The alleged errors in the textbook submitted by the panel happen to be pointed out by Shormann in a separate review. Verbatim.