https://freescience.today/2017/07/03/science-education-policy/As a matter of public policy, Discovery Institute opposes any effort to require the teaching of intelligent design by school districts or state boards of education. Attempts to require teaching about intelligent design only politicize the theory and will hinder fair and open discussion of the merits of the theory among scholars and within the scientific community. Read More ›
https://freescience.today/2016/11/08/constitutionality/This article will show that the one-sided conversation about evolution is not only unnecessary, but fundamentally counter-productive to solving many problems faced by science education today. Read More ›
https://freescience.today/2003/04/01/science-and-religion-twenty-years-after-mclean-v-arkansas/The conventional wisdom in constitutional law is that the debate that began with the famous Scopes trial in 19251 over the teaching of origins in public school science classrooms officially ended in 1987. In that year the U.S. Supreme Court, in Edwards v. Aguillard,2 struck down a Louisiana statute, the Balanced Treatment Act, that required its public schools to teach creationism if they taught evolution and vice versa. The Court held that the statute violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. A small group of academics, however, with university appointments, impressive publications, and better credentials than their creationist predecessors, have raised questions about evolution and have offered alternative arguments that have changed the texture, tenor, and quality of a debate once thought long dead. Read More ›
