YET MORE TULSA ZOO STUFF

[TlalocW]

Apparently they're wanting actual snail mail about everything so here's the address to write into concerning the attempted fundy-takeover of the Tulsa Zoo.

Tulsa Park Board
1710 Charles Page Blvd.
Tulsa, OK 74129

TlalocW

[lenidog]

1. Why would the fundys want to take over a zoo and to what purpose?

[gordianot]

2. Maybe they want to build an ark.

[lenidog]

3. That is the only thing I can think of

[Maraya1969]

4. They object to the evolution exhibit

And apparently they, (the IRC? or fundys) lied about how many signatures they had on a petition and how many people actually opposed the exhibit. Can't figure out what IRC means though.


During the next six months, Dan frequently wrote to me and others with the same basic requests. He appealed to ZooFriends' Executive Director and President, the Director of the Parks and Recreation Department, the Chairman of the Park Board, City Council persons, and the Mayor of Tulsa. Many letters of protest were received from private citizens; most of these were based on a form letter, and many seemed to be affiliated with fundamentalist churches in our area. Letters were written to the editors of local newspapers as well. Petitions were submitted with up to 2,000 signatures; to my knoweldge, these were not prepared or conducted by an independent agency. Our City's population is about 380,000; the metropolitan area is 745,000, and I am unaware of a 'scientifically conducted poll' representing two-thirds of either population number.

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If one were cynical, one would suppose that the ICR's inaccurate story concerning this "victory" was deliberate, with the unacknowledged goals of (1) rallying the cretinist troops ("see, we won this time!"), (2) making sure those donations to ICR keep coming in ("we can win elsewhere too") and (3) encouraging other supporters to get out there and fight for the Lord. Thus, ICR's newsletter article can best be viewed as a flat-out falsehood which was told in order to keep those checks coming.
How typically creationist.
Lenny Flank
http://www.icrcult.org/hs/icr3cult.htm

[lenidog]

5. So I guess their moronic plan is to hold show trials and have the animals

sign statements that evolution is a fraud.

[gordianot]

6. They may be on to something.

I'm fairly certain their future generations will be like the Horse Shoe Crab or Sharks and will not significantly evolve.

Has anyone heard lately that Spontaneous Generation is a Scientific Fact?

[corbett]

8. Science Isn't On Their Side

2005 has been a wonderful year for the science of biology and a lousy year for those who interpret Genesis literally. I am a Christian who has no problem reconciling science with the Bible. Sadly, many vocal Christian brethren of mine won't rest until the theory of evolution is discounted in the circles of science the world over.

What they fail to realize is that America is the last industrialized nation on the planet with any groups who still have a snowball's chance of achieving that goal.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050601/the_key_to_impeachment.php

[Johonny]

7. Wouldn't the solution be to

have an empty cage with the word Lion. And next to it a note that the zoo is hoping God will create a Lion in this cage, until the Lion appears please feel free to read our evolution literature...