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This is a public discussion and you owe the readers of this thread to do the work yourself of proving what you are trying to prove. It is common courtesy if nothing else.

Okay; what's good for the goose is good for the gander: you posted that Evo's had gone to court to get Evolution into the classroom. You've been asked to provide a citation or link to a such a court case, but have yet to do so.

So where's your court case citation, hmmmm? "It is common courtesy, if nothing else."

you posted that Evo's had gone to court to get Evolution into the classroom.

I don't believe that was the original argument, but here is what you asked for in the cited sentence. Note: The suit was not to mandate the teaching of human evolution only to permit it. The teaching of human evolution was prohibited by the Arkansas law.

Susan EPPERSON et al., Appellants, v. ARKANSAS.

393 U.S. 97 Susan EPPERSON et al., Appellants, v. ARKANSAS. No. 7. Supreme Court of the United States Argued Oct. 16, 1968. Decided Nov. 12, 1968.

Since you (and others here) wish to pollute this thread with irrelevancies, here it is:

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When completed, this page will contain all relevant supreme court decisions banishing creation "science" from public school science classes.

Edwards vs. Aguillard The U.S. supreme court in 1987 ruled unconstitutional a 1981 Louisiana "balanced treatment" law requiring the teaching of creation "science" in public schools whenever evolution is taught.

McLean vs. Arkansas U.S. District Court Judge William Overton in 1982 ruled unconstitutional an Arkansas "balanced treatment" law requiring the teaching of creation "science" in public schools whenever evolution is taught.

Webster vs. New Lenox U.S. Supreme Court upholds a District Court ruling that Mr. Webster did not have a First Amendment right to teach creation science in a public school.

Epperson vs. Arkansas The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1968 that a 1929 Arkansas statute prohibiting the teaching of evolution was unconstitutional.

Peloza vs. Capistrano In 1994, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court finding that a teacher's First Amendment right to free exercise of religion is not violated by a school district's requirement that evolution be taught in biology classes.

Segraves vs. California In 1981, the Court found that the California State Board of Education's Science Framework, as written and as qualified by its anti-dogmatism policy, gave sufficient accommodation to the views of Segraves, contrary to his contention that class discussion of evolution prohibited his and his childrem's free exercise of religion.

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