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[HydrogenBond]

I don't have a problem with both versions being taught in school. Here is what I see happening. Creationism will be preferred by the youngest children, if we didn't lobby and brain wash one way or the other. The reason is, science is not easy for everyone. It will take time to develop the science concepts to a level where evolutionary theory can be understood and not just blindly memorized like a religion. The concepts of genes and statistical proof, will confuse the young child since it takes some skill to master it. Creationism is easier to pick up, since it is written like a story.

As an analogy, it is easier to teach small children the fairy tale that atoms are like little solar systems with little electron planets going around the central nucleus sun, than try to teach them about wave functions. Wave functions would be as hard teach a young child even though it is true. The child would get bored and default to the solar system analogy since it is more fun to learn. But this lesson isn't even real, so it is not science in the scientific sense of being provable.

It would be interesting for parents to be act impartially, for the children's sake, and let them learn both. As their educational maturity evolves let the children make their own choices. As time goes on and their science knowledge advances, more and more children will shift to evolution. Just treating evolution as a dogma, at young ages, is not what science is, since science requires proof. Science is handcuffed relative to its own philosophy of proof at the younger ages. But in the second half science comes into its own.