HIST 3690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Microevolution, The Genesis Flood, Science Education
20 Apr 2016
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03/31/2016 & 04/05/2016: creationist debates and scientific creationism. Intelligent design theory comes next: theistic evolution. Certain critical influence intervals: materialist evolution. 1978: yale law student wendall bird: equal time . Forbade teaching of evolution in elementary school. Equal time laws in general were religiously not religiously neutral. Religious clause: congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: free speech clause: congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. Bill or practice must have a secular purpose. 1971 ruling: (lemon vs. kurtzman: three prong test of neutrality i: cannot have an effect that promotes or inhibits religion, cannot create an undue entanglement between religion and government. Scientists who support the teaching of evolution and oppose creation science. Founded institute of creation research (icr) in 1972. With john c. whitcomb: the genesis flood (1961) Aim is to develop a creationist science that is compatible with the bible.
