The Apes Don't Want You Either, Dorknozzle

[drpaisley]

An exhibit of fossils in Kenya(!) draws complaints from local creationists:

Bishop Boniface Adoyo, who heads the Kenyan evangelical churches, hasn't been mollified by an invitation to tour the Human Origins exhibit before it opens to the public, The Times of London reported.

"I do not dispute that as humans we have a history but my family most certainly did not descend from the apes," he said.

Adoyo said that members of his churches will picket the museum if evolution is presented as a fact rather than a theory.

Richard Leakey, who led the expedition that discovered Turkana Boy, is more concerned that putting the fossil on public display may cause difficulties for scientists.

"Science is at the very foundation of our ability to deal with the new century, so if we bring it down to the idea that science may be un-Christian -- well, how stupid can you get?" he said of the bishop's comments.

Well put, sir.

UPDATE: OK, so that happened in 2007. The date was not well displayed in the UPI post, but sitll, my bad. Funny, though.

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Adoyo said that members of his churches will picket the museum if evolution is presented as a fact rather than a theory.

You can't pay for publicity like that.