So, what happens to Protestant kids when they study history and science?
I have to say, we avoid text books when it comes to history... we use textbooks for science and math...
You think the bible lacks history, it explains it fully. Science, you think we fear science?
Well then, I guess they'll have to lose their faith in non-scientific concepts like the virgin birth and the resurrection. Isn't that what Catholic kids do after studying "history and science?"
You were referring to the virgin birth and the resurrection, weren't you? What else could you possibly be alluding to? Whatever it is, it is no more impossible than the virgin birth, resurrection, or other "new testament miracles."
PS: You surely don't mean that Russell Kirk was an evolutionist, do you?
Their faith is strengthened as they see what a great and awesome God we have who created a universe of such magnitude and complexity, One whose fingerprint is all over creation from the tiniest nanoparticles to the furthest reaches of space and time.
For the record, this family of a meteorologist, physicists, and engineers, have NO problem at all with reconciling their faith in a Creator God, what is written in Scripture, and "science". Science only further validates Scripture, as if the Word of God needed it.