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Title: Science and Religion Twenty Years After Mclean V. Arkansas: Evolution, Public Education, And the New Challenge of Intelligent Design.
Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
Release Date : January 22, 2003
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 394 KB

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I. INTRODUCTION The conventional wisdom in constitutional law is that the debate that began with the famous Scopes trial in 1925 (1) over the teaching of origins in public school science classrooms officially ended in 1987. In that year the U.S. Supreme Court, in Edwards v. Aguillard, (2) struck down a Louisiana statute, the Balanced Treatment Act, that required its public schools to teach creationism if they taught evolution and vice versa. The Court held that the statute violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. A small group of academics, however, with university appointments, impressive publications, and better credentials than their creationist predecessors, have raised questions about evolution and have offered alternative arguments that have changed the texture, tenor, and quality of a debate once thought long dead.