Author Stephen Dunn reported the reaction of two agnostic parents struggling with whether to send their little girl to the local vacation Bible school. They said:

Soon it became clear to us: you can't teach disbelief to a child, only wonderful stories, and we didn't have a story nearly as good. Evolution is devoid of heroes. You can't say to your child, "Evolution loves you." The story stinks of extinction, and nothing exciting happens for centuries. I didn't have a wonderful story for my child.