Shame on the Cincinnati Zoo

[mr blur]

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and the Creation Museum have made a joint marketing agreement and are selling "combo tickets" to get into both attractions for one price.

The Cincinnati Zoo is promoting an anti-science, anti-education con job run by ignorant creationists.

Unbelievable.

Unbelievable, indeed. :banghead:

http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2008/11/shame-on-the-ci.html

[TZ]

1. Damn.

I'll have to send this to my atheist Dad who lives in Cincinnati. I know he likes the zoo.
I was born in Cinci, and I have to say, seems like they still live in the last century and nothing much has changed there since I moved away in 1973.

[moggie]

2. They've changed their mind!

Zoo pulls Creation Museum promotion

The Cincinnati Zoo and the Creation Museum launched a joint promotional deal last week to draw attention to their holiday attractions.

It worked, but not the way zoo and museum officials had hoped.

The zoo pulled out of the deal Monday after receiving dozens of angry calls and e-mails about the partnership, which offered reduced prices to anyone who bought tickets to the zoo's Festival of Lights and the museum's Christmas celebration, Bethlehem's Blessing.

Most of the protests echoed the same theme: the Creation Museum promotes a religious point of view that conflicts with the zoo's scientific mission.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081201/NEWS01/312010040/1055/NEWS

See, sometimes you can get results by complaining.

[TZ]

3. Probably helps that the zoo is practically next door

to the University of Cincinnati which, IIRC has a pretty good medical school and undergrad science programs.....:)