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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.
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.
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.
Exactly.
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.
watch and athiest stumble and bumble when asked 1 simple question. “Where did it come from?” Follow up with, “Where did that come from?” These people that write this kind of bologna are deluded.
He and all others who believe in God and the Bible, will be the first taken to the work camps. I, for one, do not intend to “go quietly.”
No matter what you believe on the matter, there is no need for this textbook to say that the Bible is a myth
So true....and I think it shows how much the progressives fear that Darwinism has had so many holes poked in it recently, that they have to attack Christians
I don’t think the people who are complaining understand the definition of the term “myth”, i.e. a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people. Here is a snippet from the book’s glossary - “Creationism: A religious belief that life was created very recently, as described in the Christian Bible.” Is that inaccurate?
Why shouldn't it use the word? In context, it's perfectly accurate.
The more correct statement would be religious myth.
That allows for all the myriad creation myths, current and archaic.
It covers not only Genesis but the Hopi, Navajo, Islamic, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Shinto, and what ever.
While other creation stories speak of turtles carrying the sun, chariots, and other mystical creatures, the Genesis story is a rational explanation that does indeed closely mirror what scientists know to be true about the origins of our universe the appearance and order of life on earth culminating in man.
We must remember that Genesis was directed to a primitive audience. If any atheist were challenged to explain ( in less than 400 words) to a very primitive people of today how the universe, earth, and man came to be could he do a better job than Genesis? I doubt it. An atheist's explanation would have just as much of a magical flavor as Genesis.
Finally....We must begin the process of closing down all government K-12 schooling. This is the only possible solution toward ending these endless battles over curriculum and policies.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE A RELIGIOUSLY NEUTRAL EDUCATION!!! This is axiomatic and one the major reasons why government must get completely out of the education business. Fundamentally, all government schooling is a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination.
I agree. If they had simply not mentioned it at all, that would have been different.
But to actively go out of their way to take a stand in a science textbook on a topic which scientists say that science cannot speak on because it's out of the realm of what science can address, is the height of hypocrisy.
Liberals: Always trying to ban or censor something, yet, they are the ones that scream, “Fascist!”