We’re in the heart of the OK Legipalooza 2026 – the cold, empty, and dreadful part of January when lawmakers introduce all the batshit crazy right-wing bills they’ve filed to pander, appease, and entertain the masses they happily represent and belong to.
One of those bills is Senate Bill 1868 by David Bullard – the bearded right-wing culture-war fighting Derplahoman from Durant.
If passed and signed into law – and before being blocked by the courts as unconstitutional – it will prohibit Oklahoma science teachers from presenting the theory of evolution as the only universally accepted and proven-to-be-true explanation about the origins and development of complex life and organisms, which it is, and instead require them to present non-science-based origin beliefs – like intelligent design and religious creation myths – as other viable options.
Here are the details from a press release Bullard issued:
Bullard Bill Pushes Back on Evolution-Only School Curriculum
Sen. David Bullard, R-Durant, has filed legislation to restore balanced instruction in Oklahoma classrooms and promote critical-thinking skills by ensuring students are not subjected to one government-mandated ideology about the origins of life.
Senate Bill 1868 prohibits public school teachers from presenting the theory of evolution as the sole explanation for the origin of human life. Bullard’s bill requires public and charter schoolteachers who instruct students on biological evolution to also provide education on the concepts of creationism and/or intelligent design.
Hehe. Did you catch that? He’s positioning the theory of evolution not as a foundational, universally accepted scientific truth that forms the basis of so many other disciplines in biology, medicine, and genetics, but as a “government-mandated ideology.”
I don’t know what species he evolved from, but it’s probably Homo Diccus Mouthbreathus .
In addition to mandating that evolution be taught alongside quack religious theories, Bullard is protecting the rights of students and teachers to look dumb in the classroom, or as he puts it, to debate “the scientific strengths and weaknesses of biological evolution, creationism, and intelligent design.”
The legislation also protects teachers and students from censorship by preventing the State Board of Education and local school boards from prohibiting objective discussion of the scientific strengths and weaknesses of biological evolution, creationism, and intelligent design.
“For far too long, we have clouded the understanding of where we come from and our origins as humans,” said Bullard, a former history and government teacher. “For decades, we have taught fiction as fact and forced the theory of evolution on our kids. That ends now. Senate Bill 1868 fixes this problem by putting both evolution and creationism in the classroom for students to learn.”
If you ask me, Bullard better watch what he asks for here!
The theory of evolution is about as bulletproof a theory as they come. It’s been proven true by thousands and thousands and thousands of experiments and studies, and has held up strongly against almost two full centuries of religious, cultural, and scientific scrutiny and debate.
In fact, if taught correctly, it can – quite convincingly – disprove the silly creation myth that some mysterious omniscient being created all life in his little garden 6,000 years ago.
So sure. Bring it on. Let students have “objective discussions” about the merits of both evolution and its comically unbelievable religious counterparts. Who knows? Maybe it will help open the eyes of some kid being brainwashed by ultra-fundamentalist parents at home, and introduce them to a whole new world grounded in scientific knowledge and reasoning... right before their parents turn to homeschooling.
Anyway, if you want to hear a religious quackpot ramble and argue that evolution should be discredited all because Charles Darwin – in one sentence in one letter written nearly 170 years ago – expressed some early hesitation about his then untested theory, you can do that here.
In the meantime, we’ll follow this bill – and others being unveiled during OK Legipalooza – and keep you updated.
Stay with The Lost Ogle. We’ll keep you advised.
