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Wow, that is a very touchy subject! I struggled with that a little bit, but one thing I learned is that if the students are talking about "religion," it's okay to keep the conversation going as long as you're not trying to influence the students one way or another. So one of the things I did was if I were to do a PowerPoint, I would bring up both sides of the story without using the word religion/culture. So instead of saying " a certain religious group believes that the Earth is about 6000 years old," you could just say "at this age and time, people thought the Earth was 6000 years old due to the lack of scientific technology."
A lesson that you might be able to do is to have the students do a debate. In most of my classes, many students brought up their religion saying that they don't believe in it because of it. Later on, it turned into a debate naturally. So having a debate lesson might be good.
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