Abstract
More than two decades ago, philosopher of biology Michael Ruse testified as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the Federal District Court case, McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education (529 F. Supp. ED Ark. 1982). The plaintiffs in that case challenged the constitutionality of an Arkansas law that had recently been passed by the state legislature. The law mandated that public (taxpayer-funded) schools that taught Darwin's theory of evolution would also be required to teach 'creation science' (a thinly secularized version of Fundamentalist Christian interpretations of Biblical Genesis). In his ruling against the defendants, Judge Overton relied heavily on Ruse's testimony when concluding that 'creation science' fell short of the following 'essential characteristics of science':
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