No-one should ever tell anyone else that they should believe anything, pete. No-one teaching about evolution can do that because the theory will never "be true". That is not what theories are for. In science we weigh up probabilities (using reason) on the strength of evidence. We are always open to revising our conclusions, which are never final. If you had a science teacher who did it differently, he wasn't a good science teacher. It does happen. In science we are pretty strict about what counts as evidence. Applying our rules to the things that are claimed as evidence for God, well sadly you haven't actually got any. Unwisely, you rely solely on faith. As I was telling Joe, Puff the Magic Dragon has precisely equal merit with God in the likelihood of existence stakes. Now we don't set the bar high in order to exclude God. We set the bar high so that science can progress human knowledge. Unlike you, we can't afford to be sloppy about this.