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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If you can’t preach religion in school, than you shouldn’t be able to preach against it. In the immortal words of Billy Mays, it’s just that easy.
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Can the end times be prevented?
It’s beginning to seem like the clock is striking midnight.
Correct, to say that “creation by God” is a myth, is to force the religion of ATHEISM on the students.
Any religion that believes in a God who did not create everything (regardless of timeframe it took), needs to then explain the “creation of God” (did it happen in the Big Bang while everything else was forming, did God evolve from space dust, are there other Gods then also evolving and forming like new stars?).
Any religious nature of “creation” does not need to be addressed in the text, but an absolute rejection of it cannot be in the text.
The separation of church and state prohibits the State from disavowing religion as well.
But, of course, the Evolutionists think they have a free pass to take shots at religion.
“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.”
Biblical myth? Well, it IS biblical and it is no more proven as fact than is evolution. The writers of the book could have worded it differently I suppose.
Atheist Supremacists have become fundamentalist lately, forcing their worldview on all “false believers”.
I think I would be fine calling it belief. Calling it myth seems to be an intentional slap.
Indeed. Myth implies a falsehood. But even technically, Genesis is not a myth, but any explanation of the world that is contrary to Egyptian and Mesopotamians myths, and posits a relationship between the Creator and man that is radically different from theirs.
The bible has proven to be true over and over. As of late, an acutal picture of the apostle Paul. However, Darwins theory was just that, a theory. Never proven and never will be.
There is no reason for the text to mention any religious teaching. And if they are trying to claim that those who do not believe every tenat of Darwin’s theory are by default believers in a literal 6 day creation as told in the Bible they are leaving out other alternatives.
Nope this is not about Biology but about prejudicing the children against their religion.
My tagline says it...
You have no more proof that it is a myth, now, do you? To anyone who says the bible is a myth, I say look around you. Life and the earth is a miracle in itself. It didn't happen by accident. I challenge that person to read the bible from cover to cover. It is just full of stuff that has already came true and especially now things are happening at an alarming rate and all of it is in Revelation.
What do you mean by this, I am just curious.
Exactly.
Agreed. Creationism can be mentioned without the slam on the Bible.
"Myth" carries an association of falsehood, and the mention of the Bible is unnecessary in any case.
The term "gratuitous" comes to mind.
That’s Feducation for you! I would hope that many Christians would join this man in his quest for a ban on the anti-Christian book. I am sick of the gubmint using our own tax dollars to beat us around the head and shoulders! Come on, how many Christian soldiers will join in this fight for what is right?
You can't keep your children from being presented with falsehoods in their lives. I think it's better that kids learn to recognize false ideas and reject them, trusting you to always tell them the truth.
The Evolutionists get upset when religious people “impose their views on science”.
But, of course, the Evolutionists think they have a free pass to take shots at religion.
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For balance, I’m an evo, and I completely agree with your statements above.
Don’t know that the baby need be thrown out with the bathwater, but ‘myth’ should be replaced with ‘belief’.
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