Creating a Controversy: Biology Teacher’s Biblical Presentation at School
The article of May 16 on high school teacher John Peloza is a prime example of why American education is not keeping up with other developed countries.
The fact that the flat-Earth, flat-sky, 6,000-year-old universe of the Bible could still, in 1991, be taught in Mission Viejo, Calif., as modern scientific fact is both amusing and scary at the same time.
John Peloza should be teaching at any Christian school that has an uncritical approach to a literal reading of the Christian Bible. He does not belong in a modern, progressive science high school that is tax-supported and non-sectarian.
There are educational programs that would welcome the old thinking of Born Agains like John Peloza. The public school system is not one of them.
ALAN A. SNOW, Balboa Island
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