Tham khảo tài liệu 'teaching about evolution and the nature of science - nap (2004) episode 10', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | http catalog 126 Teaching About_ Evolution and the Nature of Science authority may be personally useful and socially relevant but they are not scientific. Because science can only use natural explanations and not supernatural ones science teachers should not advocate any religious view about creation nor advocate the converse that there is no possibility of supernatural influence in bringing about the universe as we know it. Legal Issues Several judicial rulings have clarified issues surrounding the teaching of evolution and the imposition of mandates that creation science be taught when evolution is taught. The First Amendment of the Constitution requires that public institutions such as schools be religiously neutral because special creation is a specific sectarian religious view it cannot be advocated as true accurate scholarship in the public schools. When Arkansas passed a law requiring equal time for creationism and evolution the law was challenged in Federal District Court. Opponents of the bill included the religious leaders of the United Methodist Episcopalian Roman Catholic African Methodist Episcopal Presbyterian and Southern Baptist churches and several educational organizations. After a full trial the judge ruled that creation science did not qualify as a scientific theory McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education 529 F Supp. 1255 ED Ark. 1982 . Louisiana s equal time law was challenged in court and eventually reached the Supreme Court. In Edwards v. Aguillard 482 . 578 1987 the court determined that creationism was inherently a religious idea and to mandate or advocate it in the public schools would be unconstitutional. Other court decisions have upheld the right of a district to require that a teacher teach evolution and not teach creation science Webster v. New Lennox School District 122 917 1003 .
