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<blockquote data-quote="Strathos" data-source="post: 68231586" data-attributes="member: 320753"><p>This is a horrible way to think. Consider this:</p><p></p><p>A child is raised by creationist parents and a creationist church. The child is told "evolution is wrong, because it claims X, which isn't true".</p><p></p><p>The child then goes to school, and learns that evolution does not, in fact, claim X, and all of the actual evidence points toward evolution being true. He/she then realizes that the creationists lied, and figures that if they were lying about that, they might have been lying about everything else as well, so the child deconverts and becomes an atheist. (Talk to several atheists, many of them will give you a story about their upbringing very similar to this).</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, there is a child raised by theistic evolutionist parents and a theistic evolutionist church. They are taught that God created the universe, was incarnated as Jesus Christ, and died to absolve us of our sins. Pretty much the same thing the creationist church teaches, with the exception that evolution is a scientific fact and one of the many processes in God's creation.</p><p></p><p>This child then goes to school, learns more about evolution, but it never does anything to threaten their faith. He/she then grows up to be a devout Christian.</p><p></p><p>Which of these scenarios is preferable?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Strathos, post: 68231586, member: 320753"] This is a horrible way to think. Consider this: A child is raised by creationist parents and a creationist church. The child is told "evolution is wrong, because it claims X, which isn't true". The child then goes to school, and learns that evolution does not, in fact, claim X, and all of the actual evidence points toward evolution being true. He/she then realizes that the creationists lied, and figures that if they were lying about that, they might have been lying about everything else as well, so the child deconverts and becomes an atheist. (Talk to several atheists, many of them will give you a story about their upbringing very similar to this). Meanwhile, there is a child raised by theistic evolutionist parents and a theistic evolutionist church. They are taught that God created the universe, was incarnated as Jesus Christ, and died to absolve us of our sins. Pretty much the same thing the creationist church teaches, with the exception that evolution is a scientific fact and one of the many processes in God's creation. This child then goes to school, learns more about evolution, but it never does anything to threaten their faith. He/she then grows up to be a devout Christian. Which of these scenarios is preferable? [/QUOTE]
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