What we're talking about is teaching school children. By definition not likely to be "strong believers in the first place".
I can think of no worse thing than government schools teaching Evolution vs. Creationism side by side and forcing young children to choose between them. That's a situation guaranteed to force many of those children to reject God for life. Had their religious leaders prepared them by telling them there was no conflict between Genesis and science, and not insisting on this Creationism silliness, then all of those students would be open to accepting God.
There was no need for God to use evolution in creation except to satisfy His critics and mollify those who don't believe the Scripture.
God uses what you see around for His purposes every day. Why do you think it would have been different long ago? He merely used parts of His creation to further His creation. Science calls it by many names, including Evolution. You can call it Divine, but there is no real difference between them.
Well, I can. It is teaching children a singular view of a completely unproven theory, evolution, and calling it "scientific fact", thereby undermining the Word Of God without even a fair hearing.
That's fundamentally dishonest.
Had their religious leaders prepared them by telling them there was no conflict between Genesis and science, and not insisting on this Creationism silliness, then all of those students would be open to accepting God.
You have a point here. There is no conflict between Genesis and science.
But, what you refer to as "Creation silliness" does confuse children, especially when it is known as "evolution". This "evolution silliness" contradicts the Word Of God and thereby does tend to confuse children,... and adults, leading them to believe the Word Of God is wrong when there is no genuine evidence for that - only unproven theory.