Is it dangerous to teach evolutionary theory to children?

It is rather ironic that the groups that advocate not teaching evolutionary concepts, are also those who tend to not participate in the Santa Claus myth because they feel that lying to small children about Santa undermines trust. I tend to think the Santa thing is no big deal, so can go either way and sort of lean toward making it clear it is all imaginary from the get go, and it is sort of an introduction to abstract thinking.