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Newsom Michael
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 1:18 PM
To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: RE: Public schools and parents
It is important to recognize that the erosion of support
One interesting side note to this argument I saw reported on Friday was the
way Establishment Clause caselaw helped erode political support for the ousted
school board members in Dover, Pennsylvania. As reported on PBS's NewsHour, many
Intelligent Design advocates there were actually
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From: Volokh, Eugene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 4:51 PM
To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: RE: Public schools and parents
The difficulty is that in many jurisdictions, the particular
religious group -- or, more likely, particular
My experience is that anti-evolution parents have issues well beyond biology classes that they can generally get their kids out of with little difficulty, and that the drive to insert other-than-evolution materials is not simply to "balance" an issue. But for Eugene's hypothetical, let's assume
, November 28, 2005 2:40 PM
To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: Re: Public schools and parents
My experience is that anti-evolution parents have issues well beyond
biology classes that they can generally get their kids out of with
little difficulty, and that the drive to insert other
You're right, Eugene, and I'd forgotten how they almost made it over the Constitutional hump on that label -- I think part of the difficulty is in the latter parts of the label that suggest, with no good research hook to hang the argument on, that there are alternatives in science to evolution
