GOD AND DARWIN IN THE COURTS: The controversial creation-evolution in the legal arena of the US courts

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Published: Apr 30, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5752/P.2175-5841.2019v17n52p345-365
Keywords:
religion, science, creationism, evolutionism, United States

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Roney de Seixas Andrade
Doutor em Ciência da Religião pela UFJF. Professor na Faculdade Sul Fluminense - Volta Redonda - RJ.

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the main legal cases of the United States federal and state courts that involved the historic and controversial dispute between creationists and evolutionists in that country. From the passage of antievolutionary laws in the 1920s to the legal dispute over Dover's Intelligent Design Theory in 2005, through laws that sought to ensure a balanced treatment of Darwinian evolutionary education and the science of creation in schools and American public universities in the 1980s, it’s observed the displacement of the point of application of religion which gradually lost to science its prominent place as exclusive reserve of valid meaning to explain the reality of things, on the other, a tendency to politicize religion as well as a tendency to judicialize relations and articulations between religion and science, especially within the framework of American public culture.

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ANDRADE, Roney de Seixas. GOD AND DARWIN IN THE COURTS: The controversial creation-evolution in the legal arena of the US courts. HORIZONTE - Journal of Studies in Theology and Religious Sciences, Belo Horizonte, v. 17, n. 52, p. 345–365, 2019. DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2019v17n52p345-365. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2019v17n52p345. Acesso em: 14 aug. 2025.
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v. 17, n. 52, jan./abr. 2019 - Dossiê - Judaísmo: religião, cultura, nação
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Roney de Seixas Andrade, Doutor em Ciência da Religião pela UFJF. Professor na Faculdade Sul Fluminense - Volta Redonda - RJ.

Mestre e Doutor em Ciência da Religião (UFJF).

Professor no Departamento de Ciências Humanas e Sociais Aplicadas da Faculdade  Sul Fluminense.