Strathos
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Strathos by and large there is some merit in what you say but it has a few issues. Its a false forced conclusion that the child will grow up to be devout. I know this is a major rational for theistic evolution adherents but if in the process of teaching theistic evolution you end up twisting and contorting the natural reading of Genesis you are just as likely to instill (even unintentionally) the sense that all of the Bible can have that done to it and so you still end up with a child who though has no crisis moment in faith has very little of it anyway because his trust in what he reads was totally diminished over the years.
My own approach is to let genesis says what genesis says and stop where it stops. I was amazed to find out that when I go to the text , read it literally (without letting my own preconceived notions crowd into the reading) and explore it most of the controversy vanishes and I end up not accepting evolution but not having any issues (just here and there some questions - for both sides) with the fossil record.
I never said that the situations will always turn out this way 100% of the time, that's obviously not true. But there is a definite trend towards the kind of scenario I laid out. I believe that the anti-evolution creationist movement has done more to harm Christianity than to help it.
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