NOTE: This provision of law was included in the Unconstitutional Statutes Biennial
Report to the Legislature, dated March 14, 2016.
§286.5. Clarifications
This Subpart does not require any instruction in the subject of origins but simply
permits instruction in both scientific models (of evolution-science and creation-science) if
public schools choose to teach either. This Subpart does not require each individual textbook
or library book to give balanced treatment to the models of evolution-science and creation-science; it does not require any school books to be discarded. This Subpart does not require
each individual classroom lecture in a course to give such balanced treatment but simply
permits the lectures as a whole to give balanced treatment; it permits some lectures to present
evolution-science and other lectures to present creation-science.
Added by Acts 1981, No. 685, §1.
NOTE: The Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science
Act, R.S. 17:286.1 to 286.7, was held unconstitutional in Edwards v.
Aguillard, La. 1987, 107 S.Ct. 2573, 96 L.Ed.2d 510.