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

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

3. 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

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

9. 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

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

15. EVOLUTION CONTROVERSY: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHURCH/STATE SEPARATION

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