Comment by drakythe
6 hours ago
No, but I do think it more likely they got a more accurate world history class somewhere along the line. I was taught creationism thanks to the conservatism nature of my family and the area I grew up in. It took a long while to know and accept the world (and universe) is as old as it is.
I went through public elementary and high school. The amount of world history taught there is vanishingly small.
Just for fun, ask some high schoolers who were the major combatants in WW2.
> The amount of world history taught there is vanishingly small. Just for fun, ask some high schoolers who were the major combatants in WW2.
That is an example of omission of historical facts. That's bad (especially in our current times when people have forgotten the perils of fascism), but it's different than what the GP describes, which sounds like the biblical literalist timeline of life on Earth. They described that as "conservative" but it's more correctly "creationist".