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Post by Rodney Farber on Feb 6, 2019 15:23:08 GMT
Scientific American devotes a page to what articles were printed 50, 100, and 150 years ago. This month, they mentioned the Supreme Court's prohibition of a ban on teaching evolution.
After Darwin became mainstream, several Fundamentalists-Christians of various denominations sought to check the spread of evolution by making it a crime to teach evolution. In late 1968, the Supreme Court overturned all such "crimes".
I'm surprised it took so long being 5 1/2 years after the ban on prayers in public schools.
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Post by rizdek on Feb 6, 2019 18:38:07 GMT
The oddest thing to me is that evolution in no way threatens...or at least it shouldn't threaten anyone's belief in God. Well, that is unless someone is a YEC or takes the Biblical account of creation literally. I mean the evidence is incontrovertible that the earth is ancient, that many life forms that once lived no longer live, and that mutations occur and are passed on to subsequent generations, so the mechanics of evolution are scientific fact. It's only the "theory" that this mechanism is how diverse life we see around us arose that might be challenged. And the evidence suggesting that that theory is true is pretty overwhelming. |
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Post by goz on Feb 6, 2019 22:22:24 GMT
I am not American and certainly not an expert on US law, however it sounds in general like one of those laws that are anachronistic, yet no-one ever bothered to repeal them due to 'law by precedent' or just general lack of interest or opportunity.
There are heaps of weird laws that are unused in the British legal system, like that and possibly most other countries.
Edit: except maybe PlanetArlon
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Post by politicidal on Feb 6, 2019 23:57:13 GMT
The oddest thing to me is that evolution in no way threatens...or at least it shouldn't threaten anyone's belief in God. Well, that is unless someone is a YEC or takes the Biblical account of creation literally. I mean the evidence is incontrovertible that the earth is ancient, that many life forms that once lived no longer live, and that mutations occur and are passed on to subsequent generations, so the mechanics of evolution are scientific fact. It's only the "theory" that this mechanism is the diverse life we see around us evolved through these mechanisms that might be challenged. And the evidence suggesting that that theory is true is pretty overwhelming. Old habits die hard. |
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