This reminds me of growing up in a really conservative, religious household (think of it as a typical Bible Belt upbringing, except that instead of the south-ea

This reminds me of growing up in a really conservative, religious household (think of it as a typical Bible Belt upbringing, except that instead of the south-east part of the US, I grew up in Canada, of Dutch heritage). God created the universe 6,000 years ago, etc. Anyway, to the detriment of their desire for me to grow up believing the same things they did, my parents were big readers and really encouraged me to read, and as a budding nerd, mainly what I read was science fiction and science non-fiction, which led me to have intense arguments with my parents. I vividly remember my father saying to me at one point, as his response to me making some point about the validity of modern science, that "no one knows how fire works", and that therefore science really wasn't so knowledgeable after all. I remember thinking, "surely if they've figured out atomic fusion, they know how fire works", but I really didn't have a proper response at the time. I had no idea how fire worked. It still seems magical! Some 30 years later, I finally have the answer...perhaps I should send it to him.