The Nation - News from Dec. 24, 1985
Louisiana Atty. Gen. William Guste said in New Orleans that he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether Louisiana may require its public schools to teach creation science--the biblical theory of creation--alongside evolution. A 1981 law that would have done so was struck down by a federal judge in January, and his decision was upheld by a federal appeals panel in July. The law was never implemented.
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