Some private Christian schools in Louisiana next year will be teaching that the Loch Ness monster is real.

It’s all an attempt by religious teachers to disprove Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, The Scotsman reports on its website.

The Huffington Post explains:

Thousands of students across the state are eligible to receive publicly funded vouchers to allow them to attend private Christian schools where textbooks published by Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) claim the monster was actually a dinosaur that existed at the same time as man, an assertion which conflicts with the theory of evolution.

Critics, The Scotsman points out, have slammed the religious textbooks as “bizarre.”

A former ACE student, Jonny Scaramanga, 27, now campaigns against Christian fundamentalism. He tells The Scotsman that the Nessie claim was presented as “evidence” that evolution could not have happened.