THE EVOLUTION CONTROVERSY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CHURCH/STATE SEPARATION ED JOYCE, PRESIDENT DELAWARE VALLEY CHAPTER AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION.

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THE EVOLUTION CONTROVERSY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CHURCH/STATE SEPARATION ED JOYCE, PRESIDENT DELAWARE VALLEY CHAPTER AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE

EVOLUTION CONTROVERSY INTRODUCE AMERICANS UNITED OVERVIEW OF CONTROVERSY CHURCH / STATE IMPLICATIONS

DELAWARE VALLEY CHAPTER AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE Monthly Meetings: Bucks County & Center City Philadelphia Chapter Website: dvau.org National Website: au.org Ed Joyce’s email: president@dvau.org

CREATIONIST’S BELIEFS Deny Copernican Model of Heliocentricity (earth occupies divinely assigned position) Young Earth (6000 years old) Genesis & Origins of Life

INTELLIGENT DESIGN “ The theory of Intelligent Design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.” Center for Science & Culture – supports research challenging evolution

BASIC TENETS OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN LIFE’S COMPLEXITY FINE - TUNED UNIVERSE SIMULTANEOUS EVOLUTION

EVOLUTION CONTROVERSY: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHURCH/STATE SEPARATION

LEMON TEST (Lemon v. Kurtzman 1971) Must Have Secular Purpose Must Neither Inhibit or Advance Religion Must Not Foster Excessive Government Entanglement with Religion

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