My friend Jon Reid relates a story about a conversation that he had with his children while driving them to school, in which his son tells him:

The teacher said we could choose and write that we believed in either creation or evolution. She just said you couldn't believe both.

*sigh*

Jon's response to the questions of his children was perfect:

But the Bible is not a science textbook. Science didn't exist then, we invented science only recently. So it doesn't make sense to put science onto the people who gave us the stories; it's not fair to them. There are questions religion can't answer, and there are questions science can't answer.

I wish there were more parents out there that thought this way.