Abstract
On Wednesday, December 10, 1986, the merits of the Louisiana Balanced Treatment of Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act (see ORIGINS 12:38-40; 13:36-37) were heard by the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Representing the State of Louisiana, attorney Wendell R. Bird argued that the statute intended to ensure that all the scientific evidence for origins - including evidence supporting creation-science - would be taught in public-school science classes. Jay Topkis, a New York City lawyer representing the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), contended that creation-science was merely pseudoscience and that legal attempts to enforce its teaching were promoted by Christian fundamentalists who wanted to "give God equal time" with "godless evolution."