How about teaching evolution at Sunday school?

Ok, I just registered, so I hope I am doing this right....Getting back to the original topic: How about teaching evolution at Sunday School? I am sure an arguement has been put forward for every aspect of this topic, however, as a student of human evolution and anthropology I find it hard to believe that such a question was even posed! I remember my first year of university studies, when one of my lecturers said something along the lines of "if you believe in the bible you do not belong in this class". Of course everyone needs to respect individual belief systems, but why would teaching evolution be relevant in Sunday school? Human evolution has nothing to do with the bible and this is why it is not necessarily taught in high schools, because most populations believe in some form of God and some form of creation theory. Factors in human evolution that comes remotely close to christianity or the catholic church (basically any form of religion) is the Mitochondrial Eve theory and even then that theory is misunderstood.Anyway, obviously everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I deeply respect other people's religious beliefs, however, having said that I do not think that teaching human evolution at Sunday school is relevant at all.Bella

It may surprise you but I have pretty much been exposed to alot of differing views, in the first few years of High school I attended a Catholic school, I studied biology in a public school where I was first introduced to human evolution and told that it would only be introduced and not be studied any further for reasons I discussed in my previous post. I can't say that I am a creationist, however, as my mother has always said a happy medium should be found. In high school I learnt to do this when studying Ancient Egypt and the 'myth' of Ramesses the Great being the pharaoh in the bible! I am not saying that the bible is bogus, but it may be reasonable to say that we didn't all come from Adam and Eve, otherwise we would be a genetically degenerate species, which by the way I think is a sin in the bible [inbreeding that is].
NOSYNED: As a scientific thinker I would welcome a discussion of human evolution in schurch, however, I think that strongly religious people would be offended at my attempts of disproving certain aspects of the bible.
Understand ASGARA that I am not trying to mix and match different fields of beliefs, however, I don't believe that both should be ignorant of the other.
I recently addressed an essay question regarding the migration of H. erectus out of Africa and it's links to those found in South East Asia and the appearance of modern man. I know that just because some dating test on a clump of dirt gives an age, that that date is 100% correct, what I am trying to say, rather unsuccessfully I might add, is that anything is possible, and just because science says one thing doesn't mean its absolute, but then again just because a book is thousands of years old doesn't mean its complete crap.
LOUDMOUTH: I agree with you, but I also disagree. hehe. It would be fair to say that since religion is taught in public schools, then evolution should be taught at religious schools. However, Religion is a strong belief system and does not appear to have room or time for teachings in human evolution (that was the impression I got in High school).Well, I don't mean this posting to be a sarcastic bashing in reply to other peoples postings, however it is getting rather late here and I am finding hard to articulate my discussion.Good night all, keep safe.
Bella

I am rather intrigued Zhimbo.
I didn't really pay much attention at the Catholic High School that I attended and so am not certain what course of action they would have taken had I asked them about human evolution and disproving christianity. Of course my aim here is by no means to disprove religious beliefs. But I do wonder what views the majority of religious people take when being asked about the truth of human evolution and how it ties in with religion. Would they just shrug it off, do they seriously consider the facts or do some actually leave the faith as you did?Bella