Here we go again...
Rack one up for the thought police. Regulation of the mind — the next big government program.
You wouldn’t be complaining if they didn’t get science credit for a class in scientology.
“Judge Says University Can Deny Course Credit to Christian Graduates Taught With Creationism Texts”
But full credits for courses centered on the Global Warming Hoax, the Benefits of a Marxist society, the cultural equivalence of Western civilisation and that of naked savages in Africa, and of course the great historical and ongoing evil that is the United States....
My son is starting high school at a Christian school in California today. His school uses secular text for the regular classes, and puts a Christian spin on the cousework. They have a separate Bible class.
I have mixed opinions about this. Not sure what to make of the ruling.
“but instead made a legitimate claim that the texts failed to teach critical thinking and omitted important science and history topics.”
Yea, like public schools (and their texts) are on any more solid ground in the areas of critical thinking and important science and history topics. sheesh
IOW, Bible-believing Christians need not apply to many institutions of higher learning.
Evolution is one expression of the (false) occult doctrine of becoming (like God). See Genesis 3:1-4 for the author of this doctrine.
Is it realistic to expect God to bless America while we are rejecting Him?
Hey, does this apply to Muslims as well? Do they have Muslim high schools here? What about if they studied in their home country and come over here?
The dogmatic war on creationism continues...
They know that evolution will shudder and collapse if students were exposed to the flimsy evidence.
When a HS graduate gives a commencement speech that mentions Jesus, the state is establishing a religion and the students right to free speech and expression of religion must be denied. When a state college decrees there is no god, the state is not establishing a religion. Something ain’t right there.
To be expanded to include those taught that homosexuality is an unnatural desire and deny of the myth of man-made global climate change?
Challenge question #1: How old is the Earth?
Apparently, questioning the infallibility of the working hypothesis of 'goo to you' macroevolution is a failure to teach critical thinking.
Whereas the ability to regurgitate secular dogma is.
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I teach a biology class with Bob Jones. It is the best written biology text I’ve ever seen, and covers so much ground it is in two volumes.
I’ve taught from others and find this the best.
Now it is true they don’t approve of evolution, and they cover the subject from a creationist viewpoint. They also cover how we are guardians of the earth and that a right spirit anchors the scientist.
They also put the history of science in a historical perspective, something secular texts are unable to do because they don’t understand how religion influences the science. It makes science so much more understandable, when you realize where all these great minds were coming from. For instance, you can’t understand Kepler until you understand he was a man of faith. He wanted to be a theologican and came to understand that by seeking to understand the universe, he was seeking God.
These are some of the things that make the Christian text different from the secular messes out today. It has a wholeness, of completeness, that secular texts lack. I get the same feeling reading history texts. They can’t mention God, so they have no understanding of reasoning people used.
Modern secular science texts and christian ones are not compatable, in my opinion. Secular texts have a strong emphasis on everything being chance. IMHO, they leave kids feeling very uncertain in an unstable world. Christian texts emphasize providence, the sure hand of a Creator guiding the formation of life and the cosmos.
A good teacher understands that kids will graduate into a modern society, and makes sure they understand all points of view. I use secular texts and readings as an adjunct in the subject, and have at least one class where the kids are assigned debate topics, having to take both sides.
I can tell you, as far as pure biology goes (understanding, for instance, physiology or botany) that a text like Bob Jones is superior, and the kids come out with excellent understanding.
This is just a power play by zealot secular evolutionists to attack Christianity. They don’t really care about the kids knowledge.
Sorry for the long post, but I do have some experience on this. I have spent many hours struggling over picking science texts.
pot kettle black
Yay. Finally our all-knowing, benevolent government is helping us fight those evil, anti-knowledge Christians who are bent on starting a modern day crusade against science!!!! /sarcasm
Next on the agenda: apply same tactics to fighting those who don’t buy into human-created global warming, moral equivalence of all religions, the morality of killing unborn babies, and pro-homosexual teachings . . .
And so continues the USA . . . to hell in a hand basket!
We were taught evolution in my Catholic high school. By a nun, no less. I kid you not. She taught us that whether you believe it or not, you have to look at the evidence with a critical eye. And besides, she told us, if it exists, it was in God’s plan. A reasonable, even-handed approach, and the Diocese stood behind her 100%.
I just don’t understand why you can’t keep science and relligion separate. Learning the theories and evidence doesn’t mean you have to believe in them. And yes, that includes Global Warming. But the theories are there, and should be taught as part of a science curriculum.
By the way, I really had problems with this judge’s ruling. for instance, he writes, “ They...instead made a legitimate claim that the texts failed to teach critical thinking and omitted important science and history topics.”
I’ve read tons of secular and non secular texts, both in science and history. IMHO, it’s the secular texts that leave stuff out, because they run into too much trouble if they mention God or religion.
For instance, ever read a secular text about the pilgrims? They may mention the Mayflower compact, but they won’t quote it. It mentions God.
The Pilgrims came to america because they were so committed to worshipping God in their own way. So you would think that in a text on the Pilgrims the primary emphasis would be on religion and how it influenced pilgrim society and how it got them there in the first place.
But the school text I read the emphasis in the pilgrim paragraphs was on how they repressed their women! Now, does that lead to any understanding of them?
You can see it all through secular school texts. I just read a classic christian textbook, The Church in History. When I put it down, I said, oh THATS who Charles Martel was. Because that area of history is so disjointed in modern texts, I never understood really what was going on there.
Without the understanding of faith and religious movements, the study of history and science become confused and chaotic. You don’t really realize why anything got to where it did.
Colleges and universities including religious-based colleges regularly deny credits for any number of courses. There are agreed upon guidlines for what constitutes academic credit for a subject and if those standards are not met there is no constitutional or inherent right for any person to demand credit anyway. My university would not accept as a biology course a course that only required a reading of the theory of evolution any more than it would accept just having read the bible as credit for comparative religion.
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