Word: aguillard
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High School Educator Donald Aguillard looks so proud of himself in the picture that accompanies the article concerning his challenge to Louisiana's 1981 Creationism Act. I feel sorry for him, the Justices who ruled in his favor and all those who played any part in this so-called victory. One day each one of them will have to stand before the God they have mocked...
...least one respect, the case evoked memories of the famed 1925 "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tenn., where Science Teacher John Scopes was convicted of illegally teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. The current controversy involved another high school educator, Donald Aguillard of Lafayette, La., who along with colleagues and parents challenged Louisiana's 1981 Creationism Act. That law, which had never been implemented, sought to bar evolution from being taught in public schools unless it was accompanied by the teaching of "creation science." This is the belief that some 6,000 years ago the earth and all living things were...
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