McLean versus Arkansas Board of Education

Part 5 of a 7-part interview with Dr. Eugenie C. Scott: Creation Science on Trial. Dr. Scott discusses the legal challenge to the Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act introduced in Arkansas in 1981. Evidence by creation scie

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16980. Intelligent Design and Creationism as Science

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16981. Irreducible Complexity and Flagella - Deconstructing ID

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16986. God and Science - Incompatible?

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16985. Keeping God out of the Classroom - Creation Science and Constitution

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16982. The Eye and Irreducible Complexity - Creationism Debunked

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