Kenya: Evangelists want fossil exhibits kept out of sight

[Newswire]

The world's most important collection of human fossils may soon be hidden from public view - if religious leaders get their way. In a move that has stunned scientists, senior clergy have demanded that the bones and skulls currently exhibited in Nairobi's National Museum of Kenya be removed from display to prevent young Africans from being corrupted.

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[Chicken Girl]

How incredibly sad that these people would rather hide the facts than accept the truth.

[Arvel Joffi]

No kidding. If they wanted to actively dispute them, fine. But to just hide from them? That's shameful.

[PinkPanther_04]

I can't imagine the museum going along with this. Since when do religious leaders have any say over the exhibits in a science museum? It's ludicrous that those people would even have the audacity to complain about this. If they want to tell people that science is bad or that you shouldn't go to museums, well I guess they have that right, but how do they think they should have a right to determine what goes on in the museum itself?

[Octavia]

This has to be the most pathetic thing I've heard today. Do these leaders believe that if they can't see the fossils, they no longer exist? Peekaboo works with babies, but by the time adulthood has been reached this sort of reasoning (and I use the term loosely) should be long gone.

I don't suppose they'll do the consistent thing and offer to keep the churches out of sight, lest the Darwinists be offended.

[flintknapper]

Those religious leaders in Kenya must be getting James Dobson on a satellite dish.:huh:

[Zygote]

Are the religious leaders suggesting that their god had nothing to do with the existence of those fossils? Weren't they dug out of the ground that He created?

What's next? Banning warthogs from zoos because they're ugly?

Seriously, though, unless the museum is run by the church, on what grounds can they make such a demand?

[Philosoft]

Because hiding things that people know you're hiding always works.