Barbara Forrest, Ph.D., an expert on intelligent design and co-author of Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design, undermined such claims. Life Sciences: A Social Biology. Plaintiff attorney Eric Rothschild, of Pepper Hamilton, honed in on such deliberately false statements during his closing argument: "What I am about to say is not easy to say, and there is no way to say it subtly. The Changing Classroom: The Role of the Biological Science Curriculum Study.
In 1976, Arizona Congressman John Conlan sponsored an amendment to the National Defense Education Act that would “prohibit federal funding of any curriculum project with evolutionary content or implications” (Taylor 1992).

For example, Tennessee's Butler Law—the law that John Scopes was convicted of violating—made it a crime “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.” Although the law didn't mention textbooks, fundamentalists knew that textbooks (along with teachers) were the driving forces behind a curriculum. In 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, John Scopes was a coach and substitute science teacher at Rhea County High School.
From this it is clear that the Lord suffered death, in obedience to His Father, upon that day on which Adam died while he disobeyed God. On the Origin of Species. For in these days the morning and evening are counted, until, on the sixth day, all things which God then made were finished, and on the seventh the rest of God was mysteriously and sublimely signalized. In the Light of Evolution: Science Education on Trial. Exploring Biology. The following year, the North Carolina Board of Education—with the governor's support—barred public schools from using biology textbooks that presented an origin for humans that differed from the one described in the Bible (Larson 1989). Genesis is giving us a Biblical Theology of Creation.[26]. 2001. 96 L.Ed.2d 510. New York: Macmillan. The Biblical account of the duration and order of Creation is merely a literary clothing of the religious truth that the whole world was called into existence by the creative word of God. By 1959 BSCS had established its headquarters at the University of Colorado and received an additional grant of $595,000 from NSF. 2573. Pages 11–16 in Creation of an Evolving Controversy: A Symposium on the 70th Anniversary of the Scopes Evolution Trial. For example, Republican party platforms in several states endorse creationism; education officials in states such as Kentucky openly defy the McLean and Edwards decisions by encouraging teachers to teach creationism; politicians such as House Republican whip Tom DeLay link the teaching of evolution with societal ills such as school violence, birth control, and abortion; and legislatures in states such as Alabama require or suggest the insertion of disclaimers (e.g., stating that evolution is “only a theory”) in biology textbooks (Moore 2000, Mr. DeLay's power play 1999). Scientific Creationism, a handbook for biology teachers, argued that “the basic scientific creation model” could be “taught without reference to the book of Genesis or to other religious literature or to religious doctrines.” Scientific Creationism came in two similar editions, one for public schools (containing no references to the Bible) and one for Christian schools (which included a chapter entitled “Creation According to the Scriptures”). It's a religious concept. Putting Darwin back in the dock. The Lord, therefore, recapitulating in Himself this day, underwent His sufferings upon the day preceding the Sabbath, that is, the sixth day of the creation, on which day man was created; thus granting him a second creation by means of His passion, which is that [creation] out of death.

By 1942 fewer than half of the science teachers in the United States taught evolution (Futuyma 1983). USA Today Magazine 119 (November): 88–90, 1859. They've not passed any legislation, but they've got the textbooks changed” (Pierce 1981). That garment is made up of the tales and stories; but we, we are bound to penetrate beyond.[32]. They merely bring discredit to the Bible as they pile grist upon grist on the mills of latter-day Huxleys, such as Hoyle, Sagan, Gould, and others. If it was included in textbooks at all, evolution was presented parenthetically or as an afterthought, always near the end of the textbook. People who endorsed biblical literalism got their name—fundamentalists—from a series of 12 small pamphlets (containing 90 articles) entitled The Fundamentals that were written between 1910 and 1915. After a successful crusade to outlaw liquor, fundamentalists set out to eliminate discussions of evolution in public schools. The evidence supporting evolution received even less coverage in books published in the 1950s than it had in those published in the 1940s (Skoog 1979). Atlanta (GA): Religion, Science, and Communication Research and Development Corporation, 1995. 107 S.Ct.

Forrest traced the development of Of Pandas and People, an intelligent design-focused textbook that is at the center of the Kitzmiller case. Docket no. In these instances, textbooks are relatively insignificant. Indeed, many biology teachers—regardless of the textbook they use—teach the subject of evolution either poorly or apologetically.

In most textbooks, however, evolution was featured prominently—so much so that William Jennings Bryan complained that he could not find “any text book on biology which does not begin with monkeys” (Numbers 1992). New York: Ivison, 1969.

Written and curated by real attorneys at Quimbee. New York: Norton, 1980. According to the Genesis bill, evolution was to be presented as a theory, not a fact, and other viewpoints (i.e., Genesis) were to be given equal emphasis.

About two decades after Scopes' trial, authors of some biology textbooks again made a few bold statements about the validity of evolution. . New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1921. They also consulted the Thomas More Law Center, the organization representing the defendants at no charge. Thanks to the endorsement of the federal government, increased interest in public education, and legal precedents limiting religious influences in public schools (i.e., the same forces that helped overturn Tennessee's Butler Law in 1967; see Grabiner and Miller 1974), the BSCS books became remarkably popular: By 1970 BSCS books had been adopted in almost half of American high schools.