"Darwin's Doubt" - a book review

U.S. legal quotations
 
Judge John E. Jones III made a landmark ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
The Supreme Court, Epperson v. Arkansas (1968):


...the First Amendment does not permit the state to require that teaching and learning must be tailored to the principles or prohibitions of any religious sect or dogma...the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them.

McLean v. Arkansas case (1982), the judge wrote that creation scientists:


...cannot properly describe the methodology used as scientific, if they start with a conclusion and refuse to change it regardless of the evidence developed during the course of the investigation.

The Supreme Court, Edwards v. Aguillard (1987):


...Because the primary purpose of the Creationism Act is to advance a particular religious belief, the Act endorses religion in violation of the First Amendment.

In Webster v. New Lenox School District (1990), the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals stated:


If a teacher in a public school uses religion and teaches religious beliefs or espouses theories clearly based on religious underpinnings, the principles of the separation of church and state are violated as clearly as if a statute ordered the teacher to teach religious theories such as the statutes in Edwards did.

The 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court wrote in a California case (Peloza v. Capistrano School District, 1994):


The Supreme Court has held unequivocally that while belief in a Divine Creator of the universe is a religious belief, the scientific theory that higher forms of life evolved from lower ones is not.

United States District Court Judge John E. Jones III stated thus in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, 2005:


We have concluded that Intelligent Design is not science, and moreover that I.D. cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious antecedents.[46]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_and_evolution_in_public_education_in_the_United_States