I studied Descartes , Socrates, Aristotle, Plato ect. in english class reading a book on philosophy and its history... People these days are trying to fuse religion and philisophical teachings into scientific education. Thoughts and facts come from different things. Facts come from real data and thoughts come from a persons perception of thier surroundings. Religion comes from a persons thought and ideas and perceptions as well as most philosophy. Philosophy is closer to science than religion because it inspires discovery and constantly asks "why" Religion is something usually where someone makes something up which net-explains the universe and it's functions. The Greek's believed that the "gods" would see how the earth ran. Zeus was the god that threw down bolts of lightning , that explained lightning- this goes so on. This is with most religions. In science, tools are used to discover new things. So a tool was used to identify ancient DNA and another tools was used to uncover a million year old fossil and see that there was a lizard-fish creature. Also a tool for identifying DNA was used to find that there was only a 2% difference in the DNA in humans and chimpanzees. Scientists all over the world kept researching and came up with a theory of evolution. What contains more brain power, the guy who wrote the bible or thousands of scientists. Religion isn't science, if you don't want your kid to know certain facts then give the teacher an excuse slip to excuse your kid from that section of learning. This modern world is of facts, religion used to keep us all ordely but society has evolved and religion causes more problems than solutions. It gets in the way of knowledge and we need knowledge to advance. Maybe people should know that it was the church who kept Europe in the dark ages. I'm not saying relgion is bad or anything but I think people should keep religion to themselves.