[davvolun]

This is generally true, but also completely irrelevant to the ""debate"" on evolution. Scientific humility is an important quality, but it's misleading to young kids; and fundamentally works against understanding the "cross domain scientific revolutions." Until you're prepared with the ground work to understand why Newtonian physics isn't quite right (at really small or really big sizes), a rigorous introduction to relativity is just confusing.

Just like we don't have elementary kids read Kant despite the eventual value (when they're prepared for the intellectual rigor), evolution questions should not be given to 14-17 year old kids as qualified "according to the theory of evolution." Maybe 18 -- it's a tough question that depends on individual kids' capabilities.