“Should we keep the fossils at the museums off in a different area so they won’t see them until they’re ready?”
Only an academic, or someone who thinks they are, would make such a suggestion. Fossils are facts, at least when they aren’t made up ones. There is never any reason to hide facts.
It’s the grown-up fairy tales about those facts, which keep changing every few weeks, that children do not need to be burdened with.
There is no reason to “teach” (propagandize) children with any version of “origins.” Once they can teach children to read, to do arithmetic, speak read and write English, know something about the geography of the world, (and that Islands are not in danger of capsizing from overpopulation), then, perhaps, people’s various conjectures on origins might be talked about.
Hank
How do you propose that they be insulated from that concept in the meantime?