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	Chapter 34 Appendix
		On January 5,1985, Judge William Overton released his 38-page ruling in favor of the plaintiffs, the ACLU.
		Overton ruled that creation science could not qualify as an alternative scientific explanation, on the pretext that it was primarily held by people who believed in the existence of God.
		Overton ruled that Arkansas Act 590 was therefore an attempt to establish religion in a state-supported school in violation of the First Amendment of the federal Constitution.
	www.evolution-facts.org /Appendix/a34.htm (5208 words)

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		On June 1, 1968, he found a human footprint and trilobites in the same rock, and the footprint was stepping on some of the trilobites!
		In December 1981 at the Federal District Court in Little Rock, Arkansas, Judge William Overton presided over a trial to decide whether the State of Arkansas could place concepts about creation in public school textbooks.
		It is a known fact that the ACLU has advised every state legislature, considering enactment of a law permitting equal time for both views, that the ACLU will give them another full-blown "monkey trial," as they did at Dayton, Tennessee in 1925.
	ufo.whipnet.org /creation/evolution.theory.history/index2.html (7097 words)

	Thinking About the Theory of Design. Origins Research 15:2. Nelson, Paul
		One of the things that emerged from the 1981 Arkansas "equal time" (creation/evolution) trial was the ACLU's skill at persuading the late Federal judge William Overton to accept its construal of the philosophy of science.
		Ruse and the ACLU simply did a better job of persuading Overton that they, rather than the creationists, were the true Popperians.
		As Darwin often argued to his correspondents, the theory of common descent by natural selection had to be weighed comparatively, "vis-a-vis its competitors." Explanations are judged by their relative power, and by their consistency with what we know from the present.
	www.arn.org /docs/orpages/or152/152main.htm (11566 words)

	Bibliography D
		Dembski, William A.; Behe, Michael J.; and Meyer, Stephen C. Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe.
		Dembski, William A., and Kushiner, James M., eds.
		Arkansas Board of Education." Decision of U.S. District Court Judge William R. Overton.
	www.hobrad.com /etbiblid.htm (620 words)

	Science Education Glossary References (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Memorandum Opinion of Judge William Overton, 5 January 1982, United States District Court Eastern District of Arkansas.
		New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. (p.
		Williams, D. Making a case for the science specialist.
	www.usc.edu /dept/education/science-edu/references.html (761 words)

	IBRI Research Report #23 - EVOLUTION-RELIGION AND THE GENESIS ACCOUNT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Introduction to Judge William Overton's decision, McLean vs. Arkansas, here cited in Geisler, Creator in the Courtroom, p 166.
		See, for instance, Julius Wellhausen's influential work, Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel (1878, 1883; reprinted by Meridian Books, 1957), which applies the evolution of religion to the origin of the first five books of the Bible; Adolf Harnack's What is Christianity?
		The works by fundamentalist J. Gresham Machen [Christianity and Liberalism (Macmillan, 1923; reprinted Eerdmans, n.d.)], and modernist William P. Merill [Liberal Christianity (Macmillan, 1925)], give some idea of what both sides saw as at stake.
	www.ibri.org /23evol_relig.htm (5851 words)

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