Here they come again.

@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
It’s the year 2024 and West Virginia just passed a law that will allow the teaching of religious alternatives to science (meaning creationism) in public schools. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-… by Amanda Townley of the National Center for Science Education in Scientific American

“…On March 22 West Virginia governor Jim Justice signed a bill that purports to protect the ability of the state’s public school educators to teach scientific theories. There is no actual problem that the new law would solve, however; none of its supporters produced a teacher who plausibly claimed to have been oppressed. But the legislative history of the bill, known as Senate Bill 280, makes it clear that its real aim is to encourage educators to teach religiously motivated “alternatives” to evolution. As introduced, SB 280 would have expressly allowed the teaching of “intelligent design” in West Virginia’s public schools.”