{"id":519589,"date":"2010-04-07T16:50:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=15894"},"modified":"2010-04-07T16:50:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:50:22","slug":"knoxville-father-wants-biology-book-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519589","title":{"rendered":"Knoxville Father Wants Biology Book Banned"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Knoxville<\/p>\n

Knoxville Father Wants Biology Book Banned<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A Tennessee father says a biology textbook should be banned from his son\u2019s curriculum because of it’s \u2018bias\u2019 against Christians.<\/p>\n

Kurt Zimmermann is appealing a Knoxville school district’s decision to keep the book. He says the textbook used in his son\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Knoxville County School superintendent Jim McIntyre says the committee’s finding to keep using the book is appropriate. However he asks the board to hear Zimmerman’s appeal\u00a0Wednesday, April 7.<\/p>\n

Melissa Copelan, the\u00a0board\u2019s director of public affairs tells Fox News, \u201cwhen there is a concern about education materials there is a process that is followed\u2026 Now it is up to the board.\u201d<\/p>\n

She referred to procedure listed on the school\u00a0board’s Web site. When there is a complaint about curriculum\u00a0board members put together\u00a0a committee-\u00a0six members, including the high school’s principal, a biology teacher, a parent and a student.<\/p>\n

Even though a\u00a0few of the members thought the material\u00a0was “questionable,” the committee ultimately said it’s “appropriate for an honors level biology course.”<\/p>\n

Local papers report Zimmerman pulls a quote from page 319 in the book, Asking About Life<\/em>, where creationism is described as,\u00a0“the biblical myth that the universe was created by the Judeo-Christian God in 7 days.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Knoxville Father Wants Biology Book Banned A Tennessee father says a biology textbook should be banned from his son\u2019s curriculum because of it’s \u2018bias\u2019 against Christians. Kurt Zimmermann is appealing a Knoxville school district’s decision to keep the book. He says the textbook used in his son\u2019s biology class cites creationism as a “biblical myth.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}