OK...here goes. The biggest problem occurs when schools don't teach kids TO think, not WHAT TO think - how to ask questions, get different opinions, research, use evidence. Truth is more than what someone tells them.

Many religious leaders have answers for everything. People expect that - there will never be an unanswered question, and whether it's right or wrong is impossible to determine if the answer is based solely on belief. They rely on people's distaste for uncertainty. Creationists argue that science is just another belief system, and there are some that believe all the fossils ever found are hoaxes. It's a bit like sitcking one's fingers in one's ears when one doesn't want to hear something. What's frightening about parents not wanting their kids to learn evolution is that what they're really doing is preventing the kids from hearing views different from theirs. If the kid doesn't hear different explanations, they don't have to ever decide whom to believe. That amounts to mind control.