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Trial and Error
The American Controversy
Over
Creation and Evolution
Third Edition
EDWARD
OXJORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
2003
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UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Copyright © 1985, 1989, 2003 by Edward John Larson
First published in 1985 by Oxford University Press, Inc.
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First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1989
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Larson, Edward J.
Trial and error.
Bibliography p. Includes index.
1 Evolution—Study and teaching—Law and
legislation—United States—History. 2. Creationism—
Study and teaching—Law and legislation—United
States—History. I Title.
1986 344-73'o95 85-7144
ISBN 0-19-515470-3; 0-19-515471-1 (pbk.)
135798642
Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
Preface to the Third Edition
God may have created the universe in six days, but this slender volume
evolved over two decades. I began studying the legal issues under-
lying the evolution teaching controversy in a 1978 seminar taught by
Harvard law professor Larry Tribe and, during the early 1980s, I broad-
ened my research into the controversy under the tutelage of Univer-
sity of Wisconsin historian of science Ron Numbers. The first edition
of this book appeared in 1985, followed by an updated version in 1989,
and this third