History Behind The Campaign
The campaign and strategy was put forth by the institute in anticipation of legal challenges arguing that the teaching of intelligent design would violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Such a case was the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, where Judge John E. Jones III ruled that intelligent design is not science and "cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents". The Dover ruling also considered the practice of "teaching the controversy" and characterized it as part of the same religious ploy citing testimony that evolution is overwhelmingly accepted by the scientific community and is a theory which every major scientific association endorses.
Read more about this topic: Critical Analysis Of Evolution
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