Scientist Fights Church Effort to Hide Museum's Pre-Human Fossils

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Scientist Fights Church Effort to Hide Museum's Pre-Human Fossils
By Kendrick Frazier
posted: 03 December 2006
10:46 am ET

Famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey is giving no quarter to powerful evangelical church leaders who are pressing Kenya's national museum to relegate to a back room its world-famous collection of hominid fossils showing the evolution of humans' early ancestors.

Leakey called the churches' plans "the most outrageous comments I have ever heard."

He told The Daily Telegraph (London): "The National Museums of Kenya should be extremely strong in presenting a very forceful case for the evolutionary theory of the origins of mankind. The collection it holds is one of Kenya's very few global claims to fame and it must be forthright in defending its right to be at the forefront of this branch of science." Leakey was for years director of the museum and of Kenya's entire museum system.

More: http://www.livescience.com/othernews/061203_richard_leakey.html

[wtmusic]

1. It's sad there's even a need

to present a "forceful case for evolutionary theory". Gravity's next...

[aquart]

2. Someone slap those asses upside the head.

What medieval nonsense.

[Skittles]

3. can't these religious freaks have their own museums

gawd I hate religious f***s

[and-justice-for-all]

4. Kick

[badgerpup]

5. It's gotta be something in the water...

"If we insist on hiding the evidence to the contrary and pretend real hard, maybe it'll be true." :eyes::banghead:

[LaBanty]

6. it must suck

to devote your entire life to the pursuit of natural science just to have a bunch of Fundies tell you the earth is flat, and shit on everything you've accomplished.

Damn, do I despise them. They'd drag us back to the stone ages if they could. That is, if they believed there ever was a stone age.