The Nation - News from Dec. 24, 1985
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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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