Hi there!

@cmfbaker - Without knowing who gardeningkate is, I would summise from my experience of the home schooling community, that your suggestion that a child should be taught all points of view is *exactly* why gardeningkate would not want evolution taught as fact. There is such a significant amount of disagreement between academic scientists in this area that there is no way that it should ever have been taught as fact in the first place. Darwin's theory, in his original papers, only suggested evolution by natural selection not by genetic mutation and this is often overlooked in Western textbooks and the derived thought on this has been hotly contested for decades.

Now, everyone will have an opinion on what they believe in this example, BUT the point is not what you believe but rather that each child /student / lifelong learner should have the chance to given the whole picture so that they can evaluate the information and determine their own position for themselves. This is a practice that is common in the vast majority of homeschooling environments and it is certainly an eye opener for a child to be able to sit down and explain over a cold drink in summer by the local lake why they believe something because it was not just because a text book told them so.

Cheers!