Thanks for this. Sadly, the scientific theory of evolution (ToE) has become so conflated in people’s minds with an atheistic worldview, that I am curious: were you allowed to tell your students that you were teaching ToE, and NOT in any way challenging their theistic beliefs? Or, was even that considered out of bounds?
In my workplace, as a software engineer, ToE never once came up in an official setting (we never used so-called “evolutionary algorithms”). Talking about one’s faith in a work-related setting would have been frowned upon, and I didn’t try it. However, in personal interactions I found out that I worked with a decent number of Christians of various forms (although by no means a majority), and also people of other faith traditions.