home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... School superintendent Kenneth Shadowen had gotten wind of a shocking fact: The fifth- and sixth-grade science textbook, Discovery Works published by Simon Schuster, devoted two pages to the Big Bang, and nothing to Genesis. ... If we can bring people to understand how these terms are used, then we wouldn't have problems like we're having in many parts of the country now, such as laws to force teachers to teach evolution as `theory,"' Scott said. ...