This is a response to A Heart for Home's post on teaching her children Creation Science. One thing that bothered me about what her FIL said was this,

"He felt that they should be taught what the world believes so they can view creation science in the context of mainstream evolutionist theory"

Shouldn't we be teaching our children to look at the world with biblical glasses on... not through the glasses of mainstream humanistic thinking?

 I think it is interesting that her FIL thinks she should be teaching her kids both points of view, because that is not what they are doing in public school. As your kids get older, you will be able to explain to them how some people do not believe that God created the earth in 7 literal days. By then they will be able to poke all sorts of holes in the theory of evolution if you have been teaching them creation science for many years. My 12, 9 and 6 year olds can all point out evolutionary thinking in tv shows and books. My 6 year old regularly goes through our books and tells me to get rid of the ones that have an evolutionary point of view :). The bottom line is this... both creation science and evolution rely on faith. It takes more  faith to believe that we all came from fish than it does to believe that the God of the Universe spoke us into existence.
To Christians who think that a day does not mean a day I would ask them to explain the following... if a day means millions of years then how do they explain death and sin before Adam? If God created plants on day 3, how could they have survived for millions of years before the sun which was created on day 4? If animals were created on day 5 and lived for millions of years before Adam then there would have been millions of years of death, sin, decay. In the Bible it says that God created something and it was good. The Bible is says that death, disease, and suffering came into the world as a result of sin, Adam's sin. God instituted death because of sin so man could be redeemed. As soon as we allow for death, suffering, and disease before sin (Adam), then the whole foundations of the message of the Cross and the Atonement have been destroyed.
I think the problem with most Christians (who don't believe in a literal 7 days) is that they don't believe the Bible is self-authenticating. They are relying in outside sources to support what the Bible says. Since the "millions of years" theory has been taught for many years now people are trying to get the Bible to conform to that theory. But it just doesn't work. I would encourage people to take what Doug Phillips calls "The Desert Island Challenge". If you lived on a deserted island and all you had was the Bible to shape your worldview what would you believe? You would believe in 7 literal days, because that is what the Bible says. It is when we allow ourselves to become immersed in this humanistic culture that we begin to bend our beliefs.

Okay, I am done preachin' for today...