Published November 17, 1986 | Version public
Journal Article

Statute Attacks All of Science

Abstract

It is most important that the U.S. Supreme Court affirm the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which threw out a Louisiana statute mandating the teaching of "creation science." That statute would require that in the public schools of Louisiana the teaching of certain parts of science (which concern "origins" and thus appear to conflict with the claims of particular religious sects) would be selected for special pejorative treatment and would have.

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© 1986 The Scientist. November 17, 1986. Gell-­Mann, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91125, won the Nobel prize in 1969 for his work in the classification of elementary particles.

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