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Reports on the views of U.S. District Court judge Clarence Cooper on evolution-disclaimer stickers which were added to biology textbooks by the Department of Education in Cobb County, Georgia in 2005.

Reports that U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper ordered Cobb County school district in Georgia to remove stickers which states that a book contains materials on evolution. Description of the sticker as a way of endorsing religion; Role of district student parent Marjorie Rogers as the leader of the drive for the textbook disclaimers; Violation of the separation of the church and the state.

The article discusses the ongoing controversy in Cobb County, Georgia over the evolution disclaimer stickers that a federal judge has declared unconstitutional in violation of both the Georgia and the U.S. Constitutions. The fundamentalists have managed to convince the school board that anyone who opposes science-book stickers that call evolution "a theory not a fact" is a heathen, an infidel, a godless wretch. In science, a theory is a statement that pulls together information from a lot of different sources, like the cell theory in which all living things are made of cells or cell products and cells come from pre-existing cells.