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Originally Posted by photon
I think the kids are old enough to answer as simple a question as "is it right to believe something just because you were raised to think that way", but it didn't seem they had ever considered the question before. And so many of them saw it as a choice between God and evolution when it doesn't have to be.
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Yeah, that's true. It just seemed to me that a guy like Dawkins, who is really bringing a gun to a knife fight in that kind of discussion, was a little tough on them.
But... whoever told these kids to believe what they do believe was even tougher, and spiced his "theories" up with spooky tales about what will happen if they believe otherwise, so maybe it was a fair approach.
I had vague ideas about all the big questions when I was 15. If some charismatic celebrity preacherman had come into my school with a camera crew and used fancy words to get my head spinning, well that just wouldn't have seemed fair.
He proved a point but he didn't need kids to do it I guess is my argument.
On the other hand, using affluent, English private-school students to prove that point wasn't an accident, so maybe it was a good thing.