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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
The base theory (all things evolved by chance without a creator) isn't questioned.
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In a mere 8 words you have managed to show that not only do you not understand the theory, but that your misunderstanding is so profound that it is questionable whether or not you ever could.
1. Evolution does not happen by "chance".
2. Evolution does NOT say there is no creator.
You aren't rejecting the theory of evolution, you are rejecting what you THINK is the theory of evolution. That isn't a subjective opinion, that's just wrong - and that's why almost all opponents of the theory are just wrong; they are arguing with straw men like so many asylum inmates set free in the fields to attack invisible scarecrows.
If anything, your argument illustrates the opposite of what you intend, as it makes it clear that personal bias of the parent shouldn't override the right of the child to learn, simply because the parent (in general) is not an infallible judge of what is and isn't true or important.
In an ideal system, there is no problem with parents being involved in what kids should learn, but never what they shouldn't. There is a difference - if you want emphasis on arts and literature, that's fine, but what isn't fine is censoring what arts and literature that involves; similarly if you want children to learn about science, there should be nothing that is outside the bounds of enquiry. If you are afraid of your child learning, believing, or thinking differently than you do, you fail as a parent - your duty is to teach and encourage that child to be
better than you, and not the same as.