Augusta County | Where the Scopes trial has yet to be resolved, a hundred years later

At least one Augusta County school leader is jonesing for a redo of the overturned verdict in the Scopes trial, where an appeals court nixed the $100 fine of the guy charged with illegally teaching evolution.

The Scopes trial, of course, was a the “Trial of the Century” way back in 1925; in 2025, we have Augusta County School Board member Sharon Griffin, egged on by a wannabe MAGA influencer, weighing in on the matter of teaching evolution with the observation that “evolution doesn’t withstand good science.”

That was Griffin at a Sept. 4 meeting of the School Board, per reporting by Patrick Hite at the News Leader, in which Hite examined the hurt feelings among some locals (motto: “I didn’t evolve from no monkey”) regarding a letter from the school system to families of students in secondary science classes on evolution.

Holy crap, that they had to send out that letter.

“Evolution is a unifying concept that underpins various scientific disciplines, including astronomy, geology, biology, and earth science,” the letter reads, in part, per Hite’s reporting. “Its importance lies in its ability to explain how the natural world has evolved over time. By teaching evolution, we aim to instill in students an understanding that the world around us is not static; it has a history and has undergone cumulative changes.”

Seems that the issue came up in the first place because of a Facebook post from a guy named Corey Colvin, who identifies as the children’s director at Calvary Baptist Church in Staunton, and the founder of something called Reformark Media, which has as its mission statement “saturating the Shenandoah Valley with the gospel,” and also begs for donations and sells merch.

Colvin, the wannabe MAGA influencer who has, not surprisingly, posted an awful lot about Charlie Kirk the past few days, called out Augusta County Public Schools for teaching evolution, which he said “flies in the face of what we believe (as Christians).”

“Evolution is a theory,” Colvin wrote in a comment on the video challenging the Augusta County Public School stance on the teaching of evolution posted on the YouTube channel of LegacyWorks, a marketing agency affiliated with Colvin.

Are you getting it yet – that our guy Corey Colvin here is trying to set himself up as the next Charlie Kirk?

Somebody has to be the next Charlie Kirk; might as well be Corey Colvin, amirite?

“I can say the same thing about a Creator that you can about evolution,” Colvin wrote. “The evidence is everywhere. Since we both have to have faith to believe in what we believe in, it shouldn’t be forcibly taught and tested on in public schools.”

This Corey Colvin guy is just doing what grifters do – no issue with him playing his grift.

He needs to pay his bills the same as the rest of us do.

That School Board member, though – come on.

Please, somebody here, try to haul a science teacher into court for teaching evolution.

I beseech you.