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No Intelligence Allowed in Mount Vernon, Ohio

by TheBigRuski | June 21, 2008 at 06:43 pm | 299 views | 5 comments | 25 recommendations

An Ohio school board decides to fire Mount Vernon Middle School teacher on charges of refusing to stop teaching creationism and intelligent design.

Never mind his alleged cross branding on students’ arms, 8th-grade teacher John Freshwater is on the cutting block for preaching his Christian beliefs about how the world began, discrediting evolution and not teaching the required science curriculum, the Mount Vernon school board said Friday.

In a manner similar to what was portrayed in Ben Stein’s documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Freshwater was on watch for at least 11 years for as high school teachers said, “undermining science instruction in the district.” High school teachers also claimed that they had “to re-teach scientific concepts to students who took Freshwater’s class,” The Columbus Dispatch reports.

However, unlike the movie, the Freshwater case appears to have an added twist...more

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at 20:50 on June 21st, 2008

TheBigRuski, I like this story. It's good stuff.

I wonder how this story would have been different if the teacher had a Koran on his desk instead of a Bible.

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at 22:14 on June 21st, 2008

TheBigRuski, I like this story. It's good stuff. I see this story is spun to say the firing is about him burning the crosses on his students, rather than the fact he offers comparative views on the way it all began. OK scientists, what happened, a second before the Big Bang? If the Universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? If evolution by mutations is correct, why do we not see sub groups of the mutated and non mutated species? That will keep ya busy for your career. I like having Faith that before the Big bang was an intellegent Supreme Being, Oh the anxiety is just Gone when you know where you came from and where your going.