DARWINISM IN THE CLASSROOM - CRITIQUING ORTHODOXY AND SURVIVING IN THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT

By Robert D'Agostino Public school officials nowadays operate on the assumption that the Supreme Court has decreed that the Free Exercise and Establishment Clause mandates freedom from religion rather than freedom of religion. This attitude manifests itself very clearly in the establishment of Darwinism in the public school biology curriculum. The assumption is that any alternative to the neo-Darwinian paradigm is creationism, whether biblical or of the intellectual design variety. This book sets-forth the constitutional and scientific basis for critiquing Darwinism and the assumptions, scientific and otherwise, and ideological motivations behind the imposition of the currently fashionable views about evolution. It is aimed at scholars, biology teachers, school administrators, and attorneys and judges facing or considering litigation and the informed public willing to put aside ideological commitments. Aside from presenting scientifically based questions about the explanatory power of