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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This may be OT, but how do you teach your child WHAT a religion is in the first place? It seems awfully abstract for children who take everything literally. Like if they learn a creation story, isn't that going to conflict with scientific explanation later? What do you tell them, there are just two stories and some people believe one . . . ?[/quote]

I think you have to get your head around your own idea of religion first. We teach (and were taught by our own parents) that there are many stories of different faiths (and even within a single faith, variations on a story) to explain the world, and different people believe different things to different degrees. You can believe in a story down to the specific details, or believe in a story conceptually but not literally. (This actually prompted a great conversation with my then-5yo about the difference between a story that you know is not true and a lie.)

Obviously, though, this doesn't work with a more rigid faith.[/quote]

Well, there’s new Earth creationism which decries evolution and geology, old Earth creationism which supports geology (and maybe some evolution, usually not evolution of humanity), and intelligent design (can encompass everything scientific, including the Big Bang).  The more Orthodox the faith, the closer you get to new Earth creationism.  I personally believe in intelligent design, as I don’t know that so many coincidences would have happened (science says that it’s a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent) without an intelligent brain and compassionate heart behind it.[/quote]

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