Word: aguillard
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...approach dates to a landmark 1987 Supreme Court ruling. In Edwards v. Aguillard, the court overturned a Louisiana law that required creationism to be taught alongside evolution. At the same time, it opened a creationist loophole by stipulating that schools could teach "a variety of scientific theories about the origins of humankind." That sounds reasonable. If scientists argue about the merits of one theory as opposed to another, why shouldn't anti-evolutionists be able to present their side of the controversy in the classroom...
...will never formally end as long as there are millions of them out there with lots of money. I think the important point is that with the Supreme Court victory Edwards v. Aguillard, we destroyed the strategy that has been their focal point since the 1920s, namely the attempt to force legislatively the mandated teaching of this oxymoronic creation science of theirs in the classroom...
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