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When your child's science education challenges your religious beliefs

My daughter is studying evolutionary biology and keeps asking me questions about Genesis that I cannot answer without feeling like I am lying to her or betraying my faith.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The intersection of parental duty and spiritual conviction creates an impossible choice between intellectual honesty and faith preservation.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Religion and science — the examined relationship?”

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