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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
I have a 13 soon to be 14 year old son. At this moment he's really interested in Evolution. He was telling my mother in law about Dinosaurs and the size of them and other animals from that era. She says...wow that must have been scary for the people at that time....she was dead serious. She's 77 or do only has about a grade 8 education from a private catholic boarding school in the 50's. She still thought the whole Bible is what had happened...even though she probably has not been to any type of church herself for close to 60 years.
Unless your kids go to Catholic schools they should be okay. Some friends will go to Church, but I had friends who went to church when I was young that were more interested in telling me where they had lunch after. Can't remember any 5 years trying to preach God at me. But 40 years ago even public schools had a lot more Christisn based ideals. So even though my parents were not church goers themselves I did have an idea what all this was. I guess we were evil enough where there was a Bible in the house that I think my Dad had from his folks. Although now that I think about it I remember him telling us it wss just like a story book.
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The thing is, the Catholic church doesn't even disregard evolutionary science, nor is it strict about taking the Bible literally when it comes to the age of the Earth. Some of the most influential evolutionary scientists were Catholic. You can if you want to, they don't care either way, it's up to the individual. Maybe it was different back in the 1950s, but even 100 years before that, Catholic scientists were making discoveries in biology that hinted at evolution. I know we learned about evolution, dinosaurs existing millions of years ago, geology, and all that stuff.
I went to Catholic school up until grade 9 and religion class was my favourite class, next to history and geography. I kind of looked at it the same way as an English lit class. You read stories and try to figure out what the people were thinking and what the lessons were. But I liked it more, because you had to try and put your mind into the space of ancient or medieval people.