Rule of law

Rule of law.

At first, the Epperson vs. Arkansas case didn’t seem to make much of an impact on history but it actually set a huge precedent in the fight against the teaching of creation science in the classroom. Though the case was a more quiet case because Susan Epperson was never actually prosecuted for anything, it did create a major setback for creation science believers in the state of Arkansas. It was the first in a line of Supreme Court cases that went against the theory of creation science. The Epperson vs. Arkansas case brought light to the subject of evolution in the classroom. For example, Daniel vs. Waters was a 1975 legal case in which the United States Court of Appeals struck down Tennessee's law regarding the teaching of "equal time" of evolution and creationism in public school system classes because it violated the Establishment clause of the Us Constitution. Following this ruling, creationism was stripped of all overt biblical references and was then renamed creation science. Another major case was in1987, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Edwards vs. Aguillard that the teaching of "creation science" constituted an establishment of religion and thus violated the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. These are just some of the many cases that have setback creation science as a method of teaching in the United States.