I had a friend who is very much into Biblical literalism and is convinced schools in not teaching the Biblical literalist account of creation is undermining our society. To my point of view, not teaching science would undermine our society.
The description in Genesis (Bereshit) is from the Jewish scriptures, and yet for a thousand years, Jewish religious leaders have said it is not meant to be taken literally. Jewish belief (among the majority of Jews) is that the account in the Tanakh (the Old Testament) is more akin to a parable to show that G-d is responsible for the existence of the universe, and is not literal truth.
The estimates in certain Christian communities as to the age of the world arose because in the Middle Ages, a monk, who believed it was literal truth, added up the ages of the Biblical patriarchs and used that to estimate the age of the world.
Certainly, you are free to believe as you wish, and teach your children accordingly. Schools are bound to teach science and what has been demonstrated by scientific analysis and the scientific method. That is no evil conspiracy hatched by Satan or by any "New World Order", it is just teaching what has been rigorously proven through research and testing.
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