KC

Sorry, but I have to brag here. Yesterday my 14-year old daughter's Sunday school class (she and her mother are Baptists, my older daughter and I am the heathens of the family) was discussing creation, and one of the students snorted out loud, exclaiming that evolution said man was descended from monkeys. My daughter raised her hand and calmly explained that this was a strawman, that what evolution REALLY said was that man, the great apes and monkeys shared a common ancestor. The other student then said Christians do not believe in evolution. My daughter calmly looked her in the eye and replied, "Well, you are looking at a Christian who does. How do you explain that?" No further anti-evolution remarks followed.

KC

Godless Dave

Your daughter has guts to speak the truth in the face of lies. Nice work, Dad!:notworthy

mecca777

You must be absolutely swollen with pride. Congrats on raising such a polite, courageous, intelligent girl.

Doubting Didymus

Just occasionally, there is a glimmer of hope in the world.

Albion

So the other person didn't come back with the "Well, then, you can't be a TRUE Christian" retort? Bet she was thinking it, though.

Good for your daughter for standing up for a potentially unpopular position.

Nic Tamzek

Based on the thread title I thought you'd just had a baby and were announcing it to the Evo/Creo forum for some bizarre reason.

Unless the baby had been born with a tail or something, that would be definitely worth posting.

Viti

Wow, please tell her she does us humans proud

Bialar Crais

Hot damn!
That must have taken one huge batch of courage to stand up like that, alone, to face the entire class and explain how they're wrong... And only 14 years to boot.

You must be very proud, and rightly so. I can only echo LadySheas and Doubting Didymus' sentiments.

KC

She is very self-assured, not only about her faith, but her ideas of how it fits in the world. And frankly, simply being who she is can be an uphill battle in some of the cultures in modern American Protestant churches. Some examples:

A couple of years ago, she confronted a different Sunday school teacher who openly told the class that Harry Potter books were evil. She told the teacher that magic was only one aspect of the stories, that they included themes of friendship, loyalty, and honor. A parent at the church heard her listening to rock music and asked why she bothered with secular music. 'Because I live in the world', she replied...LOL. She tells me most of these people back down immediately when confronted---they rarely seem to expect anyone to disagree with them, and aren't prepared for a protracted, intelligent discussion.

Fortunately, the congregation as a whole, and its pastor, are pretty tolerant for Missouri-- my wife left one church because a member openly prayed for the assassination of President Clinton, and no one spoke up in protest except her. But in many churches I think there is the assumption that evolution is wrong, simply because pastors, Phillip Johnson, and the TV evangelists say so, and nobody stands up to contradict them.

KC