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Once again, science and religion collided last week. This time the battleground was the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Justices decreed that a Louisiana law requiring that creationism be taught along with evolution in the public schools was unconstitutional. The 7-to-2 decision, strongly bolstering prior rulings maintaining the...
In at 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...
Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, sharply dissented. The two latest Reagan appointees argued that the Louisiana law was a valid attempt to let students decide "for themselves, based upon a fair presentation of the scientific evidence, about the origin of life." They attacked the majority for...
The ruling was praised by a wide range of educators, scientists, civil libertarians and religious groups. But Bruce Fein of the conservative Heritage Foundation declared, "The decision is a total assault on efforts to get anything related to religious precepts into public schools." The opinion will help lift the pressures...
NINE YEARS AGO Nathan M. Pusey came to Harvard from Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin, to become President of an enormous institution built on layer after layer of sedimented traditions. A slow and delicate play of subterranean forces had brought it to its current stature, a vast and complex machinery...