No laws were ever passed saying that evolution had to be taught in biology courses. The prestige of evolutionary theory has been built by its impact on the thousands of biologists who have learned its power and usefulness in the study of living things. No laws need be passed for creationists to do the same thing. ~ Richard D. Alexander

I have been researching the debate between evolution and creationism. I read Dawkin's The River Out Of Eden and Evolution versus Creationism: The Public Education Controversy (Oryx Press, 1983), from which I got the quote above.

The first book is not Dawkin's best but it is very readable, impeccably reasoned and suffused with his delightfully irrascible personality.

The second book, although over twenty years old, is still disturbingly relevant. Although the fundamentalists' underlying argument--biblical inerrancy--hasn't advanced much since Darwin's time, one can view the evolution of their tactics as a living demonstration of the process of natural selection as less successful arguments are abandoned and the more sucessful proliferate.