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When you said "as soon as possible" I was about to make a comment about the impetuousness of your youth, then I saw your 'about' page and found out you're an old fart like me. You must be taking more vitamins than me or something because it seems like I'm forever stacking up questions before I get my answers.

We're talking about how our Creator made everything. Let's agree that one of our jobs is to study and understand His revealed word. When we study "heaven and earth" (mentioned someplace toward the beginning) wouldn't you think it would be our sacred obligation to actually observe the actual heaven and earth around us so as to better comprehend our scriptures?

My point is that that both observation and reflection are good, even if they don't always happen at the same time.

When you said "as soon as possible" I was about to make a comment about the impetuousness of your youth, then I saw your 'about' page and found out you're an old fart like me.

I'm not that impetuous for new answers, although there are current burning questions in science ("Dark energy?" "Higgs boson?") that I follow with interest. The question for threads like the one we're on is whether we teach the kids the relatively well-established answers, things like evolution.

Not everybody likes the answers we have now. Some of the things which science, based on mountains of evidence, is saying now indicate an origin for man and an age of the Earth which conflict with a hyper-literal reading of Genesis by some people. Still, if the kids are going to learn anything at all useful about biology and geology, the current situation in science needs to be accurately described.