Leakey: How Stupid Can You Get?
The centerpiece of the exhibit at the Nairobi National Museum is Turkana Boy, the remains of a boy who died 1.5 million years ago in Kenya. The fossil, the most complete specimen of homo erectus found so far, has been kept in a bomb-proof vault. […]
"I do not dispute that as humans we have a history but my family most certainly did not descend from the apes," said [Bishop Boniface Adoyo, who heads the Kenyan evangelical churches]. […]
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.
[United Press International, "Creationists object to evolution exhibit", PhysOrg.com, 9 November 2007.]
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on Saturday, 10 November 2007 at 16.48
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I've got news for Bishop Adoyo. Considering how apes behave with one another and how humans do, God might very well have long ago concluded that what He set in motion went terribly wrong somewhere along the line.
(Psst. Your headline should read, Leakey, with an ey.)