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In the United States, religion is generally not taught by state-funded educational systems, though schools must allow students wanting to study religion to do so as an extracurricular activity, as they would with any other such activity.
Over 4 million students, about 1 child in 12, attend religious schools, most of them Christian.
There is great variety in the educational and religious philosophies of these schools, as might be expected from the large number of religious denominations in the United States. Opponents of Christian education express concerns that Christian primary and secondary schools provide science education from a creationist perspective. Many Christian schools hold that evolution is false, not only because Genesis provides a different interpretation of how the world came to be, but also because creation scientists point to evidence that they say calls evolution into question. Some paint this as a battle between faith and reason, while other Christian institutions describe it as a pairing of faith and reason.
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