The document discusses issues around teaching evolution and intelligent design in public schools. It argues that evolution is backed by over 100 years of evidence and research, while intelligent design is not a scientific theory as it is not testable and is simply used to insert religion into schools. The voucher system is problematic as it could allow public funds to be used for religious indoctrination at private schools. The document urges readers to get involved to help maintain the separation of church and state in public education.

1. Church in the Classroom The Anti-intellectualism By: Jeff Washington

3. Public schools are obligated to teach current facts and theories.

4. The voucher system is faulty.

6. Theory of EV.: All organisms today can be explained through the fact of evolution.

7. “ Theory of Intelligent Design (ID): Certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.

8. Voucher program: A student in a poor preforming public school would be allowed to use his tuition (tax money) at a private institution.

10. Is backed up by over one hundred years of studies and observations.

11. Has gone through dozens of revisions, resulting in a more defined and accurate truth.

13. Is not backed up by any amount of studies or observations.

14. Is simply not science because it is not testable but the methods of science.

15. Government The First Amendment (1791): … Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof …

16. Government Lemon Test (court ruling on religion): 1. The government's action must have a secular legislative purpose; 2. The government's action must not have the primary effect of either advancing or inhibiting religion; 3. The government's action must not result in an "excessive government entanglement" with religion.

17. ID is a religious movement "This isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science," said the [Biola] conference's prime mover, law professor Phillip Johnson of the University of California at Berkeley. "It's about religion." [Jay Grelen, "Witnesses for the Prosecution,“ World , 11-30-96, (11)26]

19. ID is rejected by nearly all experts in the relevant areas of science.

20. In no other area of science do the schools teach something with so little support among scientists.

22. 1997 - Texas - BOE proposed replacing all biology textbooks with new ones that did not mention evolution.

23. 2000 - Oklahoma disclaimer- similar to Alabama's

24. 2001 - Mattoon, IL - school board rejects textbooks because of evolutionary content (later reversed)

25. 2001 Cobb County, GA: disclaimers in HS biology and middle school science texts (later deemed unconstitutional)

27. No consensus on who the "designer” is.

28. No position on when, or how many times, the “designer” acted.

29. No position on the age of the Earth

30. No position on common ancestry. Did evolution occur, with the designer just inserting complex structures and pathways?

32. Paying for indoctrination.

34. Join a pro-separation group.

35. Contribute to the pro-separation movement.

36. Attend School Board meetings.

37. Write to legislators, everywhere!

39. www.au.org/

40. www.wikipedia.org