The When it comes to the matter of '''schools and evolution''', the primary motive for teaching [[evolution]] in schools is to support the view attract students to [[atheism]] and/or a [[Naturalism|naturalistic worldview]] at an early age and in a way that God does is not existeasily challenged by many parents. In other words, or exists but is unimportantteaching evolution puts youngsters on a path towards atheism. The better the student, the more positive the reinforcement, and the more likely this approach will attain its desired effect.
{{quotebox|[[William Jennings Bryan]], the chief spokesman against evolution, was concerned that teaching evolution would undermine the biblical foundation for moral teaching. He said that Darwinian teaching would give children ‘ … a doctrine that refutes not only their belief in God, but their belief in a Savior and belief in heaven, and takes from them every moral standard that the Bible gives us’. [http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/5625/]}}
For students who are mature enough to understand the philosophical implications, say, beginning with the upper three grades of high school, educators could explain the ideological links between evolution and various philosophical and political schools of thought: [[materialism]], [[atheism]], [[eugenics]], [[Nietzsche]], etc.
Similar links could be explored for ideas which criticize evolution, such as [[intelligent design]] which accepts some aspects of evolution while denying the lack of guidance, and [[Creationismcreationism]], which begins with the premise that [[God]] created everything; see [[Young Earth Creationismyoung earth creationism]] and [[Old old Earth Creationism]]. {{evolution}}
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