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The cutting edge
Conflict in Louisiana
by Edwin Black
(Part One)
Questions have been raised about
the controversial handling of
Louisiana’s tenacious litigation to
permit Creation Science to be
taught in public schools. Not only
has Louisiana Attorney General
William Guste allowed a private
fundamentalist group to litigate
the case, (soon to be heard by the
Supreme Court); he has allowed
them to pay for more than 90 per
cent of the state’s legal fees and
expenses—to date exceeding over
a million dollars. Although nothing
has been done in secret, the entire
arrangement is not oniy unprece
dented, it appears to violate the
Louisiana Ethics Code.
At the center of this conflict is an
affable and likable fundamentalist,
ex-newsman Bill Keith of Shreve
port, La. In 1979, Keith gave up
journalism for a seat in the State
Senate and promptly spearheaded
legislation compelling schools to
devote equal time to teaching
“Creation Science” if they also
teach Darwinian evolution.
Creation Science is the latest
approach to teaching the biblical
Genesis story in public schools. All
references to the Bible and God are
absent, allowing proponents such
as Bill Keith to declare, “We are a
science not a religion.”
Simply put, Creation Science,
according to Keith, analyzes the
admittedly inconsistent fossil record
which is rich in pure lifeforms such
as frogs, leaves and apes, but lack
ing in the transitional lifeforms
Dwarwinian evolution claims. This
fossil record supports a concept
the creationists call “abrupt ap
pearance” which they say is con
sistent with the “creation story.”
The creator’s name is scrupulously
avoided to excise any religious
preference.
“We just don’t mention his
name,” Keith declares. “Different
people call him different things.
Some might believe he was Allah.
Could be Yahweh. But the only
relationship between the Bible and
Creation Science is that they come
‘Creation Science is the
latest approach to teaching
the biblical Genesis story in
public schools. All
references to the Bible and
God are absent, allowing
proponents such as Bill
Keith to declare, “We are a
science not a religion.’”
to the same conclusion,” declares
Keith.
Sam Rabinove, legal director of
the American Jewish Committee,
offers insight from a recent unsuc
cessful creationist attempt in
Arkansas, also involving Keith and
his followers. In the 1981 case,
creation scientists said that the
creation story was infallible, recalls
Rabinove. “The Arkansas judge
struck it down, asking what kind of
scientific theory was not subject to
revision?” recounts Rabinove. “He
concluded that his was merely reli
gious teaching masquerading as
science.”
Many in Louisiana considered
Keith’s “Balanced Treatment for
Creation Science Act” an identical
masquerade even before the bill
was passed. Opponents charged
that if passed, the predicted consti
tutional challenge would cost
Louisiana taxpayers dearly. The
state Department of Education
decried an estimated $ 10 million in
new textbooks and other imple
mentation costs that would be
wasted once the law was held un
constitutional. But the Creation
Science movement is a potent pol
itical force in Louisiana. In July
1981, the state legislature enacted
the law by a wide margin.
Special arrangements
To accommodate the critics, Keith
made an agreement with the De
partment of Education allowing
them to delay buying books and
taking other costly measures until
the court fight was over. And in
late August 1981, Keith offered
Atlanta creationist attorney Wen
dell Bird at no cost to the state.
Bird’s free services were likewise
offered to Arkansas Attorney
General Steve Clark during the
1981 creationist effortnn that state,
but Clark’s spokesman James Lee
says they were declined. Describ
ing the idea as “a dangerous prece
dent,” Lee asserted, “When people
come in and offer to help, you have
to wonder about their motives.”
But in Louisiana, Bird’s services
were accepted, and in the fall of
1981, he was appointed a special
assistant attorney general. How
was Bird to be paid? “That was
between him (Bird) and Bill Keith,”
recounts Attorney General Guste’s
spokesman Rusty Jabour. Keith
confirms, “1 was to raise the money,
and he (Guste) never asked me how
I was going to raise it.”
In fact, the money was raised
from private donations—big and
small—from creationists and fun
damentalists across the country.
Bird, who normally charges $125
per hour, agreed to work at a dis
counted rate of $100 per hour,
according to sources close to Bird.
Immediately taking the offensive,
just appointed Special Assistant
Attorney General Bird launched a
massive “pre-emptive suit” in fed
eral court to establish the law’s
constitutionally. But it was soon
thrown out. Sources in Guste’s
office explain that the storm of
legal pyrotechnics—including over
50depositions—quickly exhausted
a $75,000 state appropriation to
fight the case. An assistant to Guste
recalls, “I went to the legislature
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