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Question

Hey, my Gov teacher wants me to do a presentation about supreme court cases that apply to the following situation:

Your biology teacher spent two days on the evolution theory but your religious beliefs differ and you want eequal class time to present these views. You have discussesed this with the principal, the assistant superintendent, and the superintendent. They said no. (Hint:Edwards)

Could you list some supreme court cases which set precedents in regards to this situation? I think one of them should involve someone named Edwards lol 10pts for best answer!!

Answer 1

Is this what you are looking for? Edwards vs .Aguillard

[This is the text of the 1987 United States Supreme Court decision striking down a Louisiana law that required if evolution is taught in public schools then creationism must also be taught. This 7-2 decision ended any prospect of public schools in the United States being legally forced to teach explicate creationism. One consequence of this case was that some antievolutionists choose to use the term "intelligent design" instead of "creationism."]

Answer 2

I dont think you even need to go to the Supreme court decisions (though there are many) Start with the establishment clause of the 1st ammendment constitution... "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"

Evolution theory dosent deal with religion at all.. hence its legal for a public government operated school as it just simply dosent address religion of anykind... Creationism is legal.. in a private religious school however.. private schools have different rules than public ones.. the basic premis is that any public/government agency will not promote any particular religion one way or the other.. and you have the right to have your religion as you see fit but thats a private matter and not a public matter...

And every citizen of the USA has the absolute right to send thier children to any private/religious school they want to.. you just have to pay for it is all. A public school really isnt the place for religion just for the simple fact that not everyone is going to be of the same religion.. and if religion were to be taught.. you would have to teach them all.. which would mean that nothing else would ever be taught or learned... there just arent enough hours in a lifetime to do that.

The need to go to SC decisions in this is a moot point.. as the SC has always decided those issues anyway based on the constitution establishment clause...

Answer 3

The "Scopes Trial" (Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn. 1925), often called the "Scopes Monkey Trial") pitted lawyers William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow against each other (the latter representing teacher John T. Scopes) in an American legal case that tested a law passed on March 13, 1925, which forbade the teaching, in any state-funded educational establishment in Tennessee, of "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals." This is often interpreted as meaning that the law forbade the teaching of any aspect of the theory of evolution. John Scopes, a high school teacher, was arrested for teaching evolution from a chapter in a textbook which showed ideas developed from those set out in Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. The famous trial was made infamous by the fictionalized accounts given in the 1955 play Inherit the Wind and 1960 Hollywood motion picture of the same name.

Answer 4

Since when is religion considered a biology subject?