Don Firth - it isn't faith on my side, it's a logical conclusion from data - a theory, if you will, like gravity. On the faith side is, however, just faith.

We celebrate midwinter, not $mas, but we do it AT $mas - because that is when people have time off.

This is a real question. I would ask it in much softer tones if it weren't driving me up a wall. Thank you in advance for answering the issue, not the tone, thanks.
I would like to know, as I have asked before, why should people be entitled to ignorance? I'm talking *only* about the believers who, when presented with a demonstrable reality which disproves their faith, deny reality rather than amending their faith - people who'd take their kids out of biology class for bible-thumping reasons, so all you rational theist don't get your knickers in a twist. But why should that be a right? I thought kids had a right to an education? What about adults? Why should I think that they are "entitled to their [counter to reality] beliefs" or respect beliefs which are demonstrably and already known to be false?