At the back of the courtroom Wednesday, 17-year-old Esther Sorg and 18 other students from Wilmington Christian Academy, about an hour southwest of Columbus, listened in as part of a school field trip.

Sorg said her science classes include evolution and it seems public school classes could include the creationist perspective without harm.

“My eighth-grade science class was taught from a Christian perspective, but we discussed evolution as well,” she said. “I thought that was good because I wanted to know what the current theories were.”

And she fails Science 101.