Community college instructor fired for saying Adam & Eve was just a fairy tale

The Des Moines Register reports that a community college instructor was fired because he told his students that the biblical story of Adam and Eve should not be taken literally.

The fired instructor was Steve Bitterman who taught Western Civilization at Southwestern Community College.

The school said it was a personnel issue, but would not comment over the Bible claim.

According to Bitterman, he used the Old Testament in his class to interpret it from an academic standpoint. His class was being telecast to students in Osceola over the Iowa Communications Network. A few students thought the lesson was "denigrating their religion."

"I put the Hebrew religion on the same plane as any other religion. Their god wasn't given any more credibility than any other god," Bitterman said. "I told them it was an extremely meaningful story, but you had to see it in a poetic, metaphoric or symbolic sense, that if you took it literally, that you were going to miss a whole lot of meaning there."

Bitterman said he called the story of Adam and Eve a "fairy tale" in a conversation with a student after the class and was told the students had threatened to see an attorney. He declined to identify any of the students in the class.

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So after getting a bachelor's and master's degree, how can you still believe that snakes can talk?

It must be magic.

Oh yea, and the earth was created in 6 days. whoopee doo.