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McLean v. Arkansas

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    …as an expert witness in McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education (1981), which overturned a state law that required the teaching of creationism alongside evolution in science classes. In 1984 and again in 1999, he was the principal author of Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of…

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    …as an expert witness in McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education (1981), which overturned a state law that required the teaching of creationism alongside evolution in science classes. In 1984 and again in 1999, he was the principal author of Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of…

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