Edwards v. Aguillard

The Creationism Act was a 1981 Louisiana law that sought to bar the teaching of evolution in public school classes unless "creation science" was also taught as a possible origin of organic life. The theory of evolution proposes that animals and humans evolved from one or two primitive life forms over 3 million years ago in a process of natural selection. Creation science, however, dates the start of human life on earth back 6,000 years ago as described in the book of Genesis in the Bible.