Fight over Evolution Warning Stickers Continues

J.J. Jackson* | May 25, 2006

ATLANTA ? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit today vacated a lower court decision that declared Cobb County science textbook stickers which stated ?evolution is a theory, not a fact? unconstitutional. The court was critical of the district court for issuing its ruling against the stickers despite holes in the evidentiary record in the case and remanded the case back to the district court for new proceedings.

?No school should be in trouble for simply stating the facts. That?s what schools are supposed to do. Though we wish the appeals court would have ruled on the constitutional merits of the case without sending it back to the district court, we are pleased that the district court?s ruling against the school district has been vacated,? said Alliance Defense Fund Senior Legal Counsel Joel Oster.

In its ruling today, the 11th Circuit wrote, ?The problems presented by a record containing significant evidentiary gaps are compounded because at least some key findings of the district court are not supported by the evidence that is contained in the record.? - ADF

While not a strong victory in a sense that the court refused to rule on the Constitutional merits of the case, it is still a victory. In essence what the 11th Circuit has told the lower court is “Come on, you don’t expect us to buy this do you?”

It is certainly a set back to those that seek only a teaching of strict Evolution with all it’s flaws and gaps to the children of America without having to explain those problems.

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