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The Arkansas Creationism Trial: An Overview of the Legal and Scientific Issues.

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Holtzman, Eric; Klasfeld, David – Science, Technology, & Human Values, 1982

Discusses various legal and scientific issues related to the McLean v. Arkansas 590 (balanced treatment of creationism/evolution), including nature of "creation-science," responses from scientists and lawyers, focus of the plaintiff's case (anticreationism), nature of science, and one example illustrating creationist tendency to use…

Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Court Litigation, Creationism, Elementary School Science