Scientist Fights Church Effort to
Hide Museum's Pre-Human Fossils

From LiveScience.com courtesy of AlterNet:

Famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey is giving no quarter to powerful evangelical church leaders who are pressing Kenya's national museum to relegate to a back room its world-famous collection of hominid fossils showing the evolution of humans' early ancestors.

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Leaders of Kenya's Pentecostal congregation, with six million adherents, want the human fossils de-emphasized.

"The Christian community here is very uncomfortable that Leakey and his group want their theories presented as fact," said Bishop Bonifes Adoyo, head of the largest Pentecostal church in Kenya, the Christ is the Answer Ministries.

"Our doctrine is not that we evolved from apes, and we have grave concerns that the museum wants to enhance the prominence of something presented as fact which is just one theory," the bishop said.

Bishop Adoyo said all the country's churches would unite to force the museum to change its focus when it reopens after eighteen months of renovations in June 2007.

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This encapsulates why fundamentalism, as an intellectual attitude - it's just plain wrong to call fundamentalism a "philosophy" - must be wiped off the planet. It's bad enough that these forces of academic darkness have gone after the teaching of evolution at the public schools here in the US, which does nothing but diminish the thought capacity of young Americans, but this move in Kenya is illustrative of what fundamentalism really wants. Like the backward-ass Catholic Church of Renaissance Europe, these zealots want nothing less than to destroy any line of inquiry that does not adhere to their primitive and barbaric orthodoxies. I'm all for tolerance of different points of view, but these people don't play by those rules. Personally, I think it's pretty easy to respect a particular religion or denomination as a culture while utterly rejecting, scorning even, their insistence that demonstrably invalid beliefs become mainstream. The stakes are pretty high: advancement versus devolution.

It's time for anybody with half a brain to start trashing these psychos every chance they get.

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