The ongoing controversy about teaching Evolution in American public schools has been fought out in courts over the past eighty years. I will tell where we now stand and how we got there by describing the key court trials from the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial to the 2005 Dover Area School Board case.

Bio Sketch
Murray Peshkin is a senior theoretical physicist at Argonne National Laboratory. He has worked in diverse areas of physics, most recently on foundational questions in quantum mechanics. He worked for the Manhattan Project as a graduate student. His interest in the interface between science and religion stems from his desire to avert a collision between those two that threatens serious damage to both was the topic of a previous SMSI presentation. Now he explores the intersection of the classroom, courtroom and evolution. He is to participate as a speaker in a symposium, DEBATING DR. ATOMIC, at Loyola University in Chicago on January 13, 2008.

Contact Information for Murray Peshkin’s website regarding Jan 11, 2008 SMSI meeting: http://mp.sci.rel.googlepages.com