Although he only was fined $100.00 in Rhea County he believed this decision was in violation of his 1st and 14th Amendment rights and decided to take this case to the Supreme Court in Tennessee. There it was decided that banning the teaching of any theory other than the one taught in the Bible was considered unconstitutional on the bases of combining

In conclusion, I believe that it is unconstitutional to decide whether or not a teacher can teach the theory of evolution is his or her classroom. However, I do believe that it is also unconstitutional to teach the theory of creationism. I believe this based on the fact that the government needs to keep a line of separation between religion and school. Creationism is a faith based theory that relies on the Bible without scientific evidence whereas evolutionism is a theory based on scientific evidence such as the fossil record and many scientific experiments.

The second Supreme Court case that was an offset of Scopes v. Tennessee was McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education in January 1981. Like the other cases this deals with creationism and evolutionism. Unlike the other cases this one mandates that there is to be balanced treatment for creation-science and evolution-science in public schools. Then in May 1981 a suit was filed questioning the constitutionality of this Act with three main points: First, it stated the Act establishes religion prohibited by the First Amendment. Secondly, the Act violates a right to academic freedom, which is guar

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