How about teaching evolution at Sunday school?

People have talked a lot about teaching creation in science
classes ... how do people feel about teaching evolution in
Sunday school? (if that's a UK specific term it's a church-led
school for kids that get's run on a Sunday).

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Originally posted by ddg:
Given the complex issues of evolution, young age group involved (k thru 6th at my church), limited time frame, and questionable intructor qualifications I would discourage evolutionary debate in the sunday school classroom at my church. However, in the US, churches are free to teach whatever is consistent with their theological perspective.

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Isn't the young age group a very good reason to point out that
there are alternatives to the biblical stories that are still
consistent with the underlying theology of christianity (although
perhaps not in those words).Impressing stories as fact on youngsters could be viewed as a form
of indoctrination or social programming which they are too
young to withstand.That's the main problem most creationists have with teaching in science classes,.

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Originally posted by funkmasterfreaky:
I have recently stated elsewhere that earth beginnings should not be taught in the public school system that these things should wait until post secondary education when reasoning and thinking skills have been honed a little.
So in sunday school why make it any different, sunday school is set in place to help parents in the spiritual development of a child, to help to give them an understanding of the christian faith. Taught in terms they can understand.
Still no need for kids that have not fully learned how to use their God given reasoning abilities to start in a subject as complex as the beginning of the earth. A subject so complex that even those adults who study it do not fully comprehend.
In addition to the above the school is no way allowed anything to with God so sunday school has become increasingly necessary to give children a place to learn about the spiritual, as prayer is not even allowed in schools. Teachers can't even supervise a prayer meeting on school grounds, pretty paranoid of a God who doesn't exist.
So no why do something like teach evolution in sunday school that makes no sense.

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Boiling down what you have said seems to say that the Biblical
explanation of creation is a spiritual matter, and so science
has no place in sunday school.That's all us sciencey types are saying, but in reverse.

While Quetzal was correct about my OP, your post still raises
the point I was alluding to.If public schools (that means something different in the UK
but I get the drift) should only teach evo. and creo. together
why should church schools be allowed to avoid the subject.It is a double standard, and unethical. Isn't ethics a stronger
part of spiritual education than scripture and doctrine?