Hello Snailor! (Hope you don't mind the conflation, chaps...or chapesses, whatever you are! Time is short, and one would rather deal with serious people, you know...)

Wot a lot of wriggling I drew from those who, sort of, agree, but would rather not, as it were, 'cos it's Stevieboy! Now come on, lads. Education means "leading out." It does not mean drowning children with dogma or received "wisdom" or masses of "facts". It means showing children how to grab knowledge, by providing them with the skills so to do. Any thinking person (watch it, chaps...) who sees what "religious education" does, would condemn it out of hand, and quite right too. Children should be taught about the history of religion and its impact on the modern world. They should know that some people "believe in God" but that such people do so without evidence, and that, though they are free to follow that belief if they so wish, they should ask for evidence in the most sceptical manner possible, just as they should with any "scientific facts" they are presented with. Otherwise, it's indoctrination, not education. Pete, babe, and all the other twats of your ilk, children and grown-ups can ask for and seek and find abundant evidence for the fact of evolution. The trouble with you, pete, is that you haven't the faintest inkling of the meaning of the words "evidence", "facts" or "evolution". Actually, you haven't the faintest inkling of "God", "creationism" or "honesty". You are the most incredibly dishonest person I've ever come across. St Peter must be cringing. Maybe I should get out more. But not in the direction of your benighted folk club. Got any nice anti-abortion songs?