How about teaching evolution at Sunday school?

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The evolutionists money is not going to the Sunday school programs, and if he does not want to send his/her children their why should he/she worry about what is being taught.

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(Wandering in late...) I don't know about anybody else, but some of my money is certainly going to Sunday School programs, and I care very much about what my children are being taught there. Given the make-up of my church, I don't seriously expect Sunday School to teach evolution, but I do think they should teach that Christians hold a variety of views about the meaning of the Genesis account and its relationship to science. I too was raised in a church that rejected evolution and experienced severe spiritual stress when I started to learn more about the realities of science. I'd just as soon spare others that experience.

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It is not a reality of science that man and ape have a common ancestor.
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But please let us not trick ourselves into believing that the many evolutionary claims are in fact 'realities of science.'

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I'm afraid you're quite mistaken here. I study human genetic variation for a living, and there simply is no way of understanding the genetic data other than as a product of evolution. It is the only framework available, and everyone in the field, regardless of their religion, uses it. That is the reality in my science.

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They can teach evolution in Sunday Schools when the schools start teaching alternatives to there ONE magic theory. Just think though, schools are meant to teach, if they teach, they should teach both sides. Sunday School is the group of people who believe the truth, so why teach a lie? Either way, I have learned to recognize the lies the state demands that our innocent teachers HAVE TO teach.

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If the school class is a science class, there aren't two sides to teach. There is a scientific theory, which is evolution. There's also a mass of religiously motivated, incoherent objections to evolution, but there is no alternative theory to explain the data. Pretending that there is an alternative would indeed be to teach a lie.

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It is a bit scary since people often harden in their views as they age

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It can go either way. Lots of people are dogmatic as teenagers and become more aware of uncertainty and ambiguity as they mature.

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An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. T.E. Lawrence