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Ms. Palin can't seem to name any U.S. supreme court cases apart from 'Roe v. Wade' — can you name any other U.S. supreme court case?
Epperson vs Arkansas was a 1968 Supreme court decision overturning a ban on the teaching of evolution in schools in Arkansas. The Supreme Court ruled that the 1928 law was unconstitutional due to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. (That no one religion should be promoted above any other in US law).
Epperson vs Arkansas was the first definitive blow against creationism in the US court system. Forty-three years earlier, the 'Scopes monkey trial' ended with a 'do not pursue' ruling — basically implying that the courts were not interested in prosecuting teachers for teaching evolution, but with no satisfying conclusions being made with regards to the constitutionality of evolution versus creationism.
Epperson vs Arkansas triggered a sequence of related decisions in faviour of evolution, including Daniel vs Waters, where a law requiring "equal time" teaching of evolution with creationism was overturned, and McLean vs Arkansas, where 'creation science' was dismissed as unscientific.
(Didn't initially mean to reference all of four cases, but I got carried away...)
Epperson vs Arkansas was a 1968 Supreme court decision overturning a ban on the teaching of evolution in schools in Arkansas. The Supreme Court ruled that the 1928 law was unconstitutional due to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. (That no one religion should be promoted above any other in US law).
Epperson vs Arkansas was the first definitive blow against creationism in the US court system. Forty-three years earlier, the 'Scopes monkey trial' ended with a 'do not pursue' ruling — basically implying that the courts were not interested in prosecuting teachers for teaching evolution, but with no satisfying conclusions being made with regards to the constitutionality of evolution versus creationism.
Epperson vs Arkansas triggered a sequence of related decisions in faviour of evolution, including Daniel vs Waters, where a law requiring "equal time" teaching of evolution with creationism was overturned, and McLean vs Arkansas, where 'creation science' was dismissed as unscientific.
(Didn't initially mean to reference all of four cases, but I got carried away...)