[honeychile]

I'm going back to sixth-seventh grade for this, but the way I remember it, the teacher proposed several different theories of how the earth came to be. He mentioned that most of us were probably familiar with Creationism, then told us a little about it. Then Evolution, with an explanation. Then some of the more "out there" theories - the only one I can think of right now is that our world could be simply an atom on the big toe of a huge being who lived on another planet. Just the presentations of all theories.

No "this is right, this is wrong", no judgments at all. But then again, most of my pre-college education was non-judgmental and "make it your own" (we were never allowed to quote anything verbatim).

And again, I went to public school, an ultra-liberal one which was a pilot school for the state - no parochial school education whatsoever.