The Tutor's Questions

At the library I overhear a tutor feeding questions to a high school student. The questions were worth noting as having a worldview hidden in them. For instance, instead of the neutral question: "How old is the earth?", or better, "Can we know the age of the earth?", the question was on the order of "What reptiles were roaming the earth 7.2 billion years ago?" Another: "Among our Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon ancestors what primates resisted the evolutionary branch to remain as they were?" or, "After the cataclysm clash of continents eleven billion years ago which of our ancestral primates crossed the road bridges to bring about the diversities in human typology that we see today?" These questions possessed chronological and anthropological background assumptions that were, in fact, mere theory and conjecture. Thus the student was made an uncritical Darwinist without his knowing it.