In the Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925 a Tennessee science teacher was tried and found guilty of teaching that humans evolved from single-celled organisms. Since then the scientific evidence for the theory of evolution by natural selection has become overwhelming. Yet the controversy continues. The legitimate evolution controversy is now limited to the mechanism through which nature selects - purposefulness or randomness.
The mechanism that drives evolution by natural selection is either purposefulness or randomness. One or the other. One mechanism has been banned from public school while the other is uniformly taught.
Religious instruction is prohibited in public school. The test for determining what may be taught in school as non-religious instruction is confirmable scientific evidence. Our Courts have held that scientific evidence is lacking for the mechanism of purposefulness. Therefore, intelligent design has been adjudicated to be religious doctrine and banned from science class.
The mechanism that is now taught as true in public school is that nature selects accidental random mutations of DNA. Should this randomness explanation for natural selection be taught in science class?
If there is confirmable scientific evidence that the randomness mechanism is indeed true, it should be taught in science class. However, if evidence is lacking, then randomness should be treated the same as all other religious instruction and banned from public school as a violation of our Constitution.
This book presents a 21st century update of the Scopes trial and aims to factually determine if randomness is scientific truth or religious doctrine.
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