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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I've told her the truth; that no one can be 100% sure, that it's statistically highly unlikely and that I personally am not religious. The rest I'm sure she'll figure out when she has an adult mind capable of comprehending the question.

Which is the major issue for me. Children's minds are not capable of abstract thought, period, they can't possibly be understanding the philosophical nature of "the creation question" and therefore anything you teach them as fact will be absorbed as fact without any critical thinking. And that is indoctrination, in a nutshell.

See. I am adopted, and my parents had to promise to have me baptised, which they did. My late father always believed in the value in talking; I was well versed in philosophy from a very young age, we frequently talked about reality and superstition, and faith. And I 100% believe in the power of faith.

So in place of teaching sectarian religion, could we not just put philosophy on the curriculum? 30 years on I still regularly ponder cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am...yet there is real strength in a shared energy of faith.

I think kids would benefit greatly from being shown how to think for themselves.

There was obviously never any pressure on me to indoctrinate my children into a religion, yet I have encouraged them to be spiritual. And above all, to THINK.

It's worked with one of them, the other is a complete idiot :P