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Caitlyn McKenney
March 21, 2024
Homelessness

The Exorbitant Eviction Waiting Game

Caitlyn McKenney
March 21, 2024
Homelessness
When management of a Tacoma housing community leased an apartment to Morgan* in 2022, they never imagined the ensuing behavior in her unit would cost them well over $58,000. Or that she would, despite the behavior, still be living there today. Nearly an entire building of apartment homes sits vacant on the property due to activity in Morgan’s unit. Read More ›
Francis J. Beckwith
June 7, 2003
Intelligent Design

Science and Religion Twenty Years After Mclean V. Arkansas

Francis J. Beckwith
June 7, 2003
Intelligent Design

I. Introduction The conventional wisdom in constitutional law is that the debate that began with the famous Scopes trial in 19251 over the teaching of origins in public school science classrooms officially ended in 1987. In that year the U.S. Supreme Court, in Edwards v. Aguillard, 2 struck down a Louisiana statute, the Balanced Treatment Act, that required its public Read More ›

Francis J. Beckwith
April 15, 2003
Intelligent Design

Public Education, Religious Establishment, and the Challenge of Intelligent Design

Francis J. Beckwith
April 15, 2003
Intelligent Design
In 1987, in Edwards v. Aguillard, the United States Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a Louisiana statute (the Balanced-Treatment Act) that required the state’s public schools to teach Creationism if evolution was taught and to teach evolution if Creationism was taught.’ That decision was the culmination of a series of court battles and cultural conflicts that can be traced back to the famous Scopes Trial of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. Although many thought, and continue to think, that Edwards ended the debate over the teaching of origins in public schools, a new movement, made up of largely well-educated and well-credentialed scholars, has given it new life. Read More ›
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Foundation for Thought and Ethics, David K. DeWolf and Stephen C. Meyer
June 7, 1989
Intelligent Design

Teaching the Controversy

Foundation for Thought and Ethics, David K. DeWolf and Stephen C. Meyer
June 7, 1989
Intelligent Design
Public schools face a dilemma when they address the subject of biological origins. From the Scopes "Monkey Trial" (1925) to the Supreme Court's opinion in Edwards v. Aguillard (1987), the teaching of biological origins has put the public schools in the awkward role of resolving a controversy that divides scientists, educators, and the courts. While the experts debate the issues, and the media sometimes inflame the controversy, school boards, administrators, and teachers must still answer the question, What should we teach our students about how living organisms arose on earth? Read More ›