This is just really sadly pathetic! It literally gives a black eye to the teachings of Christ to the rest of the world. I lived in Scotland for two years, specifically around Loch Ness, and it was known by everyone who lived around Loch Ness that there is no Loch Ness “monster”.
The myth has been kept alive in order to feed the tourist industry around Drumnadrochit, the small village in Urquhart Bay on Loch Ness. The Loch itself is incapable of supporting much life at all in its deep depths, beyond 30 feet in depth there is not enough oxygen in the water to to be able to support any substantial forms of life, thus there is no food for a large sea creature in the Loch. Not to mention that if a huge sea creator did exist in the Loch it would not have lived to the age that is being ascribed to it, more than a thousand years!
Many Christians who get frsutrated at not being able to provide an answer to every scientific question posed to them begin to reach for some really ridiculous answers and this is one of them.
This would be funny if it weren’t so, well, not funny.
A biology textbook used by a Christian school in Louisiana that will be accepting students with publicly funded vouchers in the fall says that the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland is real. And it isn’t just any monster but a dinosaur — an effort to debunk evolution and bolster creationist theory.
The story, reported in the Scotsman newspaper in Scotland, says that Eternity Christian Academy in Westlake is one of the many Christian schools in the United States that uses these books published by Accelerated Christian Education.
The Biology 1099 edition includes a passage about the Loch Ness Monster that says, in part, according to the newspaper:
“Are dinosaurs alive today? Scientists are becoming more convinced of their existence. Have you heard of the ‘Loch Ness Monster’ in Scotland? ‘Nessie’ for short has been recorded on sonar from a small submarine, described by eyewitnesses, and photographed by others. Nessie appears to be a plesiosaur.”
Marie Carrier, principal of Eternity Christian Academy, was quoted by the New York Daily News as saying that she would like to accept 135 voucher students for next year to join the 38 children already attending the school in grades 1 through 8.
The reason all of this matters now to the public is that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal recently signed a law that sets up the largest voucher program of any state in the country. Some 125 private and religious schools from across the state are qualified to participate in the Louisiana Believes program, which gives families public money to pay school tuition for their children.
It is interesting to note that one of the schools originally on the list, the Islamic School of Greater New Orleans, withdrew its application for voucher students after an outcry about its participation by some lawmakers.
It seems that fundamentalist Christian schools are acceptable to receive public money, but Islamic schools are not. Republican state Rep. Kenneth Harvard was quoted by the Associated Press that he would not support public funding for “Islamic teaching.”
“I won’t go back home and explain to my people that I supported this,” he said.
Democratic state Rep. Sam Jones also told the Associated Press: “It’ll be the Church of Scientology next year.”
We already know that the school that stands to get the most voucher slots in the state, the church-affiliated New Living Word School, doesn’t actually have the space, computers or teachers to handle the influx.
What all of this adds up to is the country’s biggest privatization experiment of public education. The state is sending millions of tax dollars that would have gone to public schools that need it to private schools run by church leaders, businessmen and others — with no initial effort to find out whether the schools are any good or not.
This is where support of vouchers is leading us — to the public paying for a child to learn that the Loch Ness Monster was a dinosaur and co-existed with humans. This is important to Young Earth Creationists, who believe that Earth was created no longer than 10,000 years ago, not the 4.5 billion years estimated by science. They also believe that dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark.
If people want to believe this and they want their children to learn it in school, that’s fine. The public shouldn’t have to pay for it.
True Discernment 
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