RULE OF LAW:

Preceding Edwards v. Aguillard was the 1975 legal case Daniel vs. Waters. For the same reasons listed above the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit struck down Tennessee’s law regarding, “equal time” in evolution and creationism in public schools. “The Federal District Court ruling was that the Tennessee law was "a clearly defined preferential position for the Biblical version of creation as opposed to any account of the development of man based on scientific research and reasoning. For a state to seek to enforce such preference by law is to seek to accomplish the very establishment of religion which the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States squarely forbids." (US District Court, Daniel v Waters, 1975)” (11)