A similar law made it through the Louisiana legislature that year. Fortunately, the courts overturned those laws. However, that has not deterred the creationists. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground. When you attempt to transform mythology into science, you only succeed in reducing it to so much horse-shit.
Myths contain truths.
Those truths, however, are not in the nature of scientific reasoning. Instead, those truths take the form of allegory, of metaphor, of poetry. They bind us to one another and help us understand who we are. The Biblical story of creation is a powerful myth. Reading the verses of Genesis helps us feel the connection to the thousands of generations that came before us and our contact with greater mysteries than those sciences can resolve.