MONTEGO BAY, St James – A pre-trained science teacher at Cornwall College for Boys in Montego Bay was pressured to resign Friday following a lesson that rubbished the Christian account of Jesus’ conception.

School Principal Denham McIntyre was reluctant to elaborate on the issue, which seemingly ended on Friday with an emergency meeting with the teacher and other stakeholders of the school.

“The matter has been dealt with in an amicable manner. So closure has been brought to the situation,” McIntyre told the Sunday Observer following the meeting. “There will not be a repetition of it…It was a very sad meeting that we had and it is regrettable that we had such a meeting this morning.”

The teacher, a past student of the school, irked parents and board members who found his theory challenging the over 2,000-year-old Christendom belief that Jesus was conceived by the Virgin Mary, blasphemous.

After Friday’s meeting he headed to the staff room where he collected his bag before leaving the school compound.

He admitted that despite being asked to resign, his convictions were unshaken.

“I simply told the students that in science and in my class I teach critical thinking and rational thoughts,” said the teacher who asked not to be named. “The Virgin Mary had a baby boy and they say that his name was Jesus defies rational thought because today we have invitro fertilisation and artificial insemination, but 2,000 years ago no such technology was around, it defies rational thought. What we do know is males have penises and scrotums that produce sperms and women have vaginas and ovaries that produce eggs and that cause both animals and plants to have sexual reproduction, that is basic science that I learned in Cornwall College.”

A holder of a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, the radical teacher expressed some remorse at the manner in which he transmitted his beliefs to the students.

“Presentation is very important, and I recognise what I did,” he told the Sunday Observer. “I am not a trained teacher, and so I shocked the psyche of the students and the parents… If I returned to the classroom I would still be who I am because I am what I am. However, I would present it differently, but I would still have to present the truth in that it has to be rational thought. Sexual reproduction comes through copulation.”