Evolving...
Well, it happened. Everyone warned us that it would. It is the concern most widely expressed by most of our Christian friends when we have the "Public School" conversation. Our daughter was exposed to ( you might want to be sitting down for this... ) evolution. (cue dramatic ba-ba-BUUUUHHH music) Technically, she was introduced to something akin to the big bang theory. It didn't happen in the way we would have expected. It wasn't a teacher reading from science curriculum or another student engaging her in a heated debate about faith or telling her she was stupid for believing in a Creator God. It was sneakier than that: she brought home a reading book. It explained the origins of the earth. As she read Earth: The Water Planet aloud to us my mind started racing. First, I was annoyed. "Come on," I thought. "She's a first grader. It's a reading group book, for reading. Not a science lesson. Couldn't the teacher have chosen something less contr...