The aim of this article is to look at the main legal cases of the state and federal cuts in the United States that have involved the historic and controversial dispute between criticians and evolutionists in the United States. From the adoption of anti-evolutionist laws in the 1920s to the judicial dispute surrounding the Smart Design Theory in Dover, 2005, through laws seeking to ensure balanced treatment between teaching the darwinist evolutionary perspective and the science of creation in Estonian public schools and universities in the 1980s, there has been, on the one hand, the displacement of the point of application of the religion, which has gradually been lost to science as the sole valid reservation of meaning to explain the reality of things. and, on the other hand, a trend towards politicisation of religion as well as a trend of judicialisation in relations and links between religion and science, especially in the context of US public culture.