"God Said, Let There... And It Was So"

As my kids have moved through their education career, I am amazed by the subtle way Evolution is woven into their teaching.  I have always been a Creationist and have always taught my kids that this amazing world came into existence by the mere words of God... "God said, Let there... And it was so" (Genesis 1).

Nevertheless, my 5th grader came home this past fall with a Scholastic News newsletter.  As part of her homework, she was to read a portion of the newsletter and answer a few questions.  After reading the article she looks at me and ethusastically says, "Mom did you know there is evidence that humans once at tails?"  She barely got the words out of her mouth when she realized, "Hey, that's not true!".  I was proud of her for coming to that realization herself and I think she was only able to make that determination because of the truth of God's Word we've put into her heart.  My point is this... Satan uses extremely subtle tactics and he is not afraid to use them on the youngest of belivers.  If he can divert their young minds away from God and cause them to question what God says is true, he absolutely will!

I Peter 5:8 says,

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."

My encouragement to you is to stay engaged with your kids, even at home as they work through their homework.  My experience tells me and people I've talked to have said that as children get older the teaching of evolution becomes less subtle.  My husband is finishing up a college degree (his second) and he took a science class over the summer.  His teacher was very clear that they were not to talk about God as the Creator in the classroom.  We need to prepare our kids for a world that doesn't always share their beliefs; so now when they are young we need to pump the Truth into their heart and mind, so they don't waiver when they are on their own facing a world with a completely different belief system.