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Sound familiar?
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:39 pm
by stan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/200 ... manfossils
Sound familiar?
The pentecostals want to hide the evidence of evolution in the backrooms of the national museum of Kenya.
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:40 pm
by Minimalist
Arch is vociferously defending their right to take mankind back to the Dark Ages.
Birds of a feather.......
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:09 am
by Digit
Many of mankind have never left the dark ages I fear.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:08 am
by Minimalist
Many, sadly, are happiest there.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:19 am
by Digit
Yep! Where ignorance is bliss tis folly to be wise.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:34 am
by santyago
"When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the Land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible". Jomo Kenyatta (first president of Kenya)
Funny -- the West (mostly the British) worked so hard to Christianize Kenya starting in the early 19th century. 200 years later, they have been largely successful. And -- big surprise -- the Christians want to burn the heretics!
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:57 am
by Minimalist
Getting some great quotes on this page.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
--Napoleon Bonaparte
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:08 pm
by Sam Salmon
The Good News is that Leakey is very connected politically in Kenya-if he garnered this much attention internationally he made a lot bigger waves there.
Fundamentalist Xtian religions are quite popular in Africa-but not omnipotent.