If you shouldn't teach evolution, as Starry Pete reckons, what is the argument for teaching history, maths, science, geography? I can't prove Paris is the capital of France any more than I can prove we evolved over a period that makes the stories that formed the bible look like yesterday.

Children should be taught facts. Young children can be taught fairy stories too. It doesn't harm them to know about Hansel & Gretel or the BFG. Just so long as they aren't scarred into believing them in later life. They might get a complex you see. Some fairy stories can do that.

Sorry, too obvious. The bible is a lovely old book of fables, some loving, some gruesome, and with the moral compass of ignorance as fits earlier in human history. The problem is believing them in later life. If a bloke in his 60s came up to me and swore Santa Claus existed, such a trait would prejudice my take on whatever else he had to say. So why do blokes in pointy hats insist we take them seriously too?   Just because they prey on weak minds and brainwash people into feeling guilty and grateful? The worst ones being, of course, those who (staying on topic at last) reckon supernatural events can and did happen, on the absurd basis that where we don't understand yet, they can fill the gap with bollocks.