Evolution 2. The Institute for Creation Research. Darwin Online. Creationism and Intelligent Design - News - Times Topics. In Texas, a Line in the Curriculum Revives Evolution Debate. Creationism and the Law. Legal challenges to anti-evolutionist policies began with the Scopes Trial of 1925, a case the evolutionists actually lost.
Since 1968, however, U.S. courts have consistently held that "creationism" is a particular religious viewpoint and that teaching it in public schools would violate the First Amendment of the Constitution. For a one page summary of important court cases, see Ten Major Court Cases about Creationism and Evolution. For guides to NCSE's collection of printed materials on lawsuits concerning evolution education, see NCSE Archives. Chapter 4 of Religion in the Public Schools: A Road Map for Avoiding Lawsuits and Respecting Parents' Legal Rights, by Anne Marie Lofaso, a professor of law at West Virginia University, contains a detailed review of the legal issues surrounding the teaching of evolution.
Evolution Resources from the National Academies. In the News: Your Inner Fish – A Scientific Adventure Have you ever wondered why people look the way they do?
Why our hands and feet have five digits instead of six? Why we stand on two legs instead of four? It took 350 million years of evolution to produce the amazing machine we call the human body and in Your Inner Fish, a three-part series based on the best-selling book of the same name, author and evolutionary biologist Dr. Neil Shubin looks into the past to answer these and other questions. Evolution Vss Creation.