When should you introduce your child to evolution?

[beaglelady]

@Eddie

Why do kids who aren’t even old enough to read yet (you spoke of picture books for pre-schoolers) need to know “basic principles about evolution”? Do they need to know “basic principles about economics” at that age? Or “basic principles about political science?” Or “basic principles about comparative linguistics”? What’s the hurry to indoctrinate them with evolutionary ideas?

For crying out loud, why don’t we just draw devil horns on poor grandmother fish? Children love animal stories and can learn rudimentary information about most subjects. At one museum family event I went to there was a very young boy who asked Neil Shubin, the guest speaker, if he used chemistry in his research.