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OTD, only 100 years ago, March 13, 1925.
Tennessee, USA, legislature enacted what was called Butler Act:
“Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities, Normals and all other public schools of the State which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the State, to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”
Less than three months later, high-school teacher John T. Scopes was charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
The law was repealed only in 1967.
Is anything changed there?
https://depts.washington.edu/genomicssalon/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/butler-act.pdf