In The Days

• Source: Fox News
• News Date: 4/7/10
• Author: Elizabeth Prann
• Submitted By: Jeremy Higgins

UPDATE: The school board has decided to postpone any decision on the textbook until May.
A Tennessee father told his son’s school board it should ban a biology textbook because of it’s ‘bias’ against Christians.

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Opposition of Science

“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:”
—1 Timothy 6:20

Jesus Said

“But from the beginning•Strongs 746: arche, ar-khay´; from 756; (properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank): — beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule.
•Strongs 756: archomai, ar´-khom-ahee; middle voice of 757 (through the implication, of precedence); to commence (in order of time): — (rehearse from the) begin(-ning).
•Strongs 757: archo, ar´-kho; a primary verb; to be first (in political rank or power): — reign (rule) over. of the creation God made them male and female.”
—Mark 10:6

Lovers of the Truth

“Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.”
—Malachi 3:16

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.

“Education material that is offensive, intolerant, racist, or one-sided in nature should not be used in our school system,” Zimmermann told the board members Wednesday.

Knoxville County School superintendent Jim McIntyre says the committee’s finding to keep using the book is appropriate. However he asked the board to hear Zimmerman’s appeal Wednesday, April 7.

Melissa Copelan, the board’s director of public affairs tells Fox News, “when there is a concern about education materials there is a process that is followed… Now it is up to the board.”

She referred to procedure listed on the school board’s Web site. When there is a complaint about curriculum board members put together a committee- six members, including the high school’s principal, a biology teacher, a parent and a student.

Even though a few of the members thought the material was “questionable,” the committee ultimately said it’s “appropriate for an honors level biology course.”

Local papers report Zimmerman pulls a quote from page 319 in the book, Asking About Life, where creationism is described as, “the biblical myth that the universe was created by the Judeo-Christian God in 7 days.”