US Supreme Court case of Dover Area School District v. Kitzmiller

Dover Area School District v. Kitzmiller was a 2005 Supreme Court case that challenged whether teaching Intelligent Design in public schools violated the First Amendment’s prohibition on promoting religion. The court ruled that Intelligent Design is a form of religious belief, not science, and that requiring its teaching in science classes was an endorsement of religion. Consequently, the school district’s policy was unconstitutional. The decision emphasized the importance of keeping religious views separate from scientific education, reinforcing that public school science curricula must be based on scientific consensus and not religious doctrine.