Alien Notion

February, 2003

sneaking god into science classIn 1987 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that requiring public school teachers to teach biblical creationism alongside Darwin's theory of evolution violated the constitutional separation of church and state. The decision was another in a long series of setbacks for creationists, dating to Clarence Darrow's emasculation of William Jennings Bryan during the 1925 Scopes trial.In recent years, creationists have split into two factions—the "young earthers" who bel...