You took time off  from choir practice to write this I suppose. I'm a baritone/bass in Canada near Toronto. Does your son know that dinos died out 65 million years ago.  Get him to explain it to YOU! Then add homonids have only been around 8 to 10 million years or so. If he asks about god or the bible just point out the bible is a story book not history. It might turn into a stimulating conversation between you and your son. Remember to  let him inform YOU.         

Thank you guys. Like I said I don't want to explain anything to him in too much detail myself, he's a very intelligent boy. In fact he is so knowledgable about dinosaurs that he teaches me, I don't need to ask him, he tells me of his own accord. He knows far more about dinosaurs than any religious information because it is his passion any he is not interested in learning anything religious, this obviously pleases me and fills me with overwhelming confidence that he will share my viewpoint as he gets older. I will never deny my atheism to him but only if he asks the questions, he is yet to ask me anything religious because he finds it boring. After all, he has far more exciting fiction to read and watch with modern stories and movies, why waste time on dull scriptures, the bible would make a very boring, very long movie without a happy ending, not fun for kids.

Unfortunately it is still being taught at school, neither his mother or me or any of our family is religious. School curriculum is something parents are still not in control of when it comes to religious education, although it is not as prevalent as it used to be it is still taught at a basic level to children under 11, the most influential time of their lives!

Unfortunately it's still being taught at a basic level at schools, particularly to children under 11 before they move on to higher education and can choose their classes, by which time it is too late for the less open minded children, especially ones with religious families.

Neither his mother nor me or our families are in anyway religious and yet he is subjected to the fiction in the bible (amongst other religious texts) as part of the standard educational curriculum at the most influential time in a child's life. Obviously I do not want to pull him out of school for various reasons, parents are still divided on the issue and whilst this divide remains the teaching methods will not change.

Sorry about the repeat posts, I was getting error messages when I tried to respond but they got posted anyway

It's very old school teachings, excuse the pun. Tending to focus on the more commonly quoted stories without using actual bible literature. Creation of earth (which he now understands properly thanks to the discovery channel haha), parting the red sea, the whole christmas nativity stuff, noahs ark etc etc... He doesn't take a real interest and doesn't take it too seriously so I'm not overly concerned, it's still frustrating that it is considered important enough to be taught to young children, they are not all as objective as my son and do not have objective families. It's difficult to understand that in this era of technology and science people are still teaching their children to devote their entire lives to mythical beings and live by the ridiculous words written by uneducated men over 2000 years ago!

It's very difficult to judge over here because religion isn't a big deal when it comes to everyday life, of all the people I know, and there is a lot, only a couple, and I mean 2 or 3, actively attend church. Although more of them would say they believe in god they do not follow the bible.

I think because it is not a big part of anyone's life here or taken too seriously, even those that do believe do not practice, then a movement of some sort from athiests does not come into most people's thoughts or agendas, people in Wales just dont care enough for or against religion to do anything about it either way. I know it's a much more serious debate in America but from what I have observed over here the church is in decline and atheism is becoming the default setting for most adults.

Maybe it's because of technology, maybe it's simply because America is only 250 years old, there's a thought actually, America is one of the most religious places on earth and yet it wasn't properly discovered by western civilisation for over 1500 years after the bible was written, something doesn't add up!

Also, Jesus and Mary and, well everyone in the bible, are depicted as Caucasian. Surely people being born and living in what is now essentially the middle east would have dark skin like their modern day counterparts. The very same counterparts that Christians are unwilling to accept based on the colour of their skin and their own religious beliefs, it's unbelievable!