"Three anti-science bills that would have severely set back the education of students in Oklahoma died
quietly last week when the legislative session came to an end.
Among the bills that were killed includes:
SB 1742, which would have allowed teachers to challenge evolution using the Biblical theory known as
creationism.
HB 1551 died previously in early April. That bill amounted to a full-fledged attack on climate change and
evolution. Republican state Rep. Steve Russell attempted to amend an unrelated education bill, called
HB 2341, to include the anti-science language of HB 1551 but that also failed.
With the end of the legislative session, all of these efforts to force creationism into science classrooms
have been defeated meaning science has once again prevailed in another Republican dominated state.
Earlier this month, science scored victories over creationism in Missouri and Alabama.
With these victories, Republican attempts to replace science with religion have been thwarted for
the time being. Educators and scientists across the nation have been fighting in defense of science
and the education of our kids for months, and now they have big wins in three different states.
Science and fact once again reigns supreme.
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