Irony of ironies, creationism has evolved. In a sense, it had to: In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that required the teaching of so-called creation science whenever a grade school or high school class covered the theory of evolution. That law was declared unconstitutional because creation science—the notion that the Bible’s version of the creation of the universe could be verified scientifically—was intended to advance a particular religion.
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