Teaching children that its a young earth

I don't understand how they get away with it for long. We all know how smart and inquisitive children can be. So, if you are a parent and believe that the earth is less than 10,000 years old and you go outside sometimes, don't you run into things that go against the 'young earth' theory? Even if you try your hardest to avoid them?

You don't even have to go outside. The TV has plenty of science shows on. Do they block this channel?

I like to hike, there are always signs in different spots explaining things about the area. One was explaining a bog and how that specific bog was once a river 30,000 years ago. Do they just say..oh, the scientists got that wrong? They must say this an awful lot. Doesn't that seem strange to the child?

I guess that is why they call it brainwashing.

Comments

[ben mann]

as a Catholic, i feel slightly bad for those kids. the real Church doesn't hate science, only unethical science.

likewise, i also feel kind of bad for kids being raised by secular parents to fuck their brains out at 14, divorce at 26 (and again at 32), then play pharmaceutical roulette till death (which they unquestioningly believe is The End).

there's baptist brainwashing, secular brainwashing, democratic and republican and red chinese and tibetan buddhist brainwashing.

unfortunate on all sides, but it doesn't bear on the question of truth. it just means some people --atheists, Catholics, socialists, whatever-- are unreasonable about their beliefs.

[nullifidian]

Surprisingly enough, I had a completely secular upbringing, and my parents never inculcated me to attempt any of those things. Although it does beg the question as to how a catholic could know such a thing, presumably being brought us as such. One can only imagine that there are examples of this scenario on public view somewhere. I'd be interested to see it.