Study Criticizes Public School Bible Curriculum

The New York Times today reports on criticism of The Bible in History and Literature, the curriculum that the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools has successfully gotten adopted in public schools around the country. (See prior posting.) A study released today (full text) by the Texas Freedom Network, concludes (Executive Summary): "The problems detailed by this report-- a blatant sectarian bias, distortions of history and science, numerous factual errors, poor sourcing-- reveal a curriculum that is clearly inappropriate for the 1,000 public schools the NCBCPS claims use its materials. Indeed, such schools would do far better by considering other Bible literacy curricula for what could be an enriching part of their students' learning experience." Among other things, TFN's Report says the curriculum promotes creationism and claims there are findings by NASA to support two Biblical stories of the sun standing still.