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What to teach my child?
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RE: What to teach my child?
(December 24, 2014 at 5:50 am)Stealth Wrote: -Educate them on what what my thoughts are?

-dictate what they should follow or believe in?

-Let them choose what path they want?
If you are a "deconvert" from a particular religion, I cannot imagine why you would want to dictate anything to them regarding such beliefs. Teach them to question things and teach them to seek out answers. I believe that it's an approach that will serve them well in a lot of areas of their lives.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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What to teach my child? - by Stealth - December 24, 2014 at 5:50 am
RE: What to teach my child? - by downbeatplumb - December 24, 2014 at 5:54 am
RE: What to teach my child? - by Stealth - December 24, 2014 at 6:05 am
RE: What to teach my child? - by Jackalope - December 24, 2014 at 11:41 am
RE: What to teach my child? - by robvalue - December 24, 2014 at 6:06 am
RE: What to teach my child? - by Exian - December 24, 2014 at 6:22 am
RE: What to teach my child? - by bennyboy - December 24, 2014 at 8:09 am
RE: What to teach my child? - by Tonus - December 24, 2014 at 8:59 am
RE: What to teach my child? - by Cato - December 24, 2014 at 10:15 am
RE: What to teach my child? - by dyresand - December 24, 2014 at 10:38 am
RE: What to teach my child? - by Jackalope - December 24, 2014 at 11:40 am
RE: What to teach my child? - by Jenny A - December 24, 2014 at 11:47 am
RE: What to teach my child? - by Minimalist - December 24, 2014 at 12:50 pm

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