E.g., in regards to scientific support for evolution and rejection of
creationism and the
young earth dogma, in 1986, 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, signed an amicus curiae brief asking the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard to
reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of
creationism, which the brief described as embodying religious dogma.