Posted on 04/08/2010 8:07:40 AM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
A Tennessee father told his son’s school board they need to ban a biology textbook because of it's ‘bias’ against Christians.
Kurt Zimmermann is appealing a Knoxville school district's decision to keep the book. He says the textbook used in his son’s biology class cites creationism as a "biblical myth." According to reports, he requests, 'non-biased' textbooks be used. In his words, the current textbook's phrasing misleads, belittles and discourages students in believing in creationism and calls the Bible a myth.
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No matter what you believe on the matter, there is no need for this textbook to say that the Bible is a myth.
I agree, no need to belittle.
That said, better not to put one’s child in leftist indoctrination chambers.
“That said, better not to put one’s child in leftist indoctrination chambers.”
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Oh, you mean the public schools ;-)
“That said, better not to put one’s child in leftist indoctrination chambers.”
I don’t intend for my children to ever see the inside of one, not as students anyway.
There’s no such thing as winning any sort of a culture war while sending your children off to the enemy for indoctrination. We need to get all conservative, republican, and Christian kids out of the government schools.
My three are at home and I encourage everyone I know to homeschool.
Indeed. Thank you for sharing your views, dear sister in Christ!
“I would note that you have an ally in your fight against Evil Science, however: Islamic Creationists!” [excerpt]You really should know better than to play that card.
Agreed.
But in typical evo fashion, they turn the debate from the topic of the thread to Christian and creationist bashing and comparing them to islamists is just part and parcel of it. What I find most telling is that evos will NEVER criticize the actions of other evos or scientists.
In this case, the textbook publishers made a clear dig at creationism.
For all the howling and whining about how science textbooks shouldn't be teaching creation alongside evolution because creation isn't science, evos (for the most part) are strangely silent about the textbook teaching about creation like this.
If it's not acceptable to teach about creation by simply presenting it as an alternative belief of some, it's not acceptable to teach against it by labeling it a myth since that determination is clearly outside the realm of what science can address, by scientists own insistence.
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