(September 16, 2015 at 1:55 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Well, since I don't see any Creationist Theists showing up yet, I'll jump in the pool.
Here's how I was raised: the xtian school I went to had science books that showed pictures of God creating the world, and of God walking with Adam as he named the animals, and the creation of Eve from Adam's rib. When asked about fossils and dinosaurs, my parents told me that they were lies by the evil scientific community, who hated God. If they found any real bones (that the scientists hadn't buried themselves) then those fossils were placed on the earth by Satan and his demons to try to confuse mankind. Any fossils that were found could not be older than 6000 years, because scholars had dated the age of the earth from God's Word. Darwin was an agent of the Devil.
Humans could not possibly be descended from apes, because we still have apes, how silly!
<my brain hurts now>
When I transferred to a public high school, I was careful not to bring my science book home.
I've always gone to public school and didn't go to church as a child so I was not taught those creation stories as fact at a young age.
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.
