THE END OF ACSI V. STEARNS

So I was catching up on some of my unread e-mails and while reading the NCSE's weekly e-mail, from 2 weeks ago, keeping up to date on the Creation vs Evolution debate (sign up here) and came across the article with the same title as mine. For those of you who don't know what this case is about here is an update (from the NCSE's webpage on the case).

On August 25, 2005, the Association of Christian Schools International, the Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murrieta, California, and six students at the school filed a lawsuit against the University of California. The plaintiffs objected to the UC policy of rejecting certain high school biology classes from Christian schools as "inconsistent with the viewpoints and knowledge generally accepted in the scientific community;" they claimed that this policy violated applicants' rights to "freedom of speech, freedom from viewpoint discrimination, freedom of religion and association, freedom from arbitrary discretion, equal protection of the laws, and freedom from hostility toward religion."

On August 8, 2006, Judge S. James Otero dismissed the claims against individual UC officials, but allowed the claims against the university system as a whole to proceed. On March 28, 2008, Judge Otero ruled in favor of UC's motion for partial summary judgment, which established that the university system's admissions policies were constitutional; on August 8 of that year, he further ruled that these policies were properly and constitutionally applied in the case of the applicants in question.

The Supreme Court is not going to hear the case (see their order here) so that means that the case will stand as it was last called. This is a victory for science education and should make it harder for creationists to be able to insist that their science education is the same as true science education.