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Epperson v. Arkansas, a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, challenged the right of a state to outlaw the teaching of evolution in public schools. On Nov. 12, 1968, the Supreme Court ruled that Arkansas Initiated Act No. 1, an anti-evolution law approved by Arkansas voters in 1928, violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional, thus setting a legal trend for the nation as a whole.

Tim Berra is academy professor emeritus of evolution, ecology and organismal biology at The Ohio State University.

Epperson v. State of Arkansas, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on November 12, 1968, ruled (9–0) that an Arkansas law barring the teaching of evolution in public schools violated the First Amendment’s establishment clause, which generally prohibits the government from establishing, advancing, or giving favour to any one religion. Three years after the Scopes Trial of 1925—in which a teacher was found guilty of violating a Tennessee law that barred the instruction of evolution in that...