Complete Stupidity on Evangelical’s Part

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. It seems that a pentecostal is a pentecostal is a pentecostal no matter where you are in the world whether it is in America’s Bible Belt or in the heat of Kenya. Progressive-thinking, hell, normal-thinking Americans have long had to put up with the childish antics of evangelical leaders and their efforts to rid the country’s schools of (gasp!) the Theory of Evolution. However, the one thing largely absent from this debate in the United States is the fossil record showing the evolutionary progress of hominids. The proof is all around us that evolution takes place and has taken place in regard to life on Earth be it moths of humans.

However, Kenya’s Pentecostals want to turn back the clock on scientific progress and make sure the world never sees the fossil record supporting evolution again. A museum in Kenya with an extensive collection of hominid fossils is set to reopen and plans on featuring the fossils prominently within its walls. Not if the backwards Christians of Kenya have their way, though.

From the article:

Leaders of Kenya’s Pentecostal congregation, with six million adherents, want the human fossils de-emphasized.

“The Christian community here is very uncomfortable that Leakey and his group want their theories presented as fact,” said Bishop Bonifes Adoyo, head of the largest Pentecostal church in Kenya, the Christ is the Answer Ministries.

“Our doctrine is not that we evolved from apes, and we have grave concerns that the museum wants to enhance the prominence of something presented as fact which is just one theory,” the bishop said.

Bishop Adoyo said all the country’s churches would unite to force the museum to change its focus when it reopens after eighteen months of renovations in June 2007. “We will write to them, we will call them, we will make sure our people know about this, and we will see what we can do to make our voice known,” he said.

Wow. I wonder when this will happen in American museums? I am sure we are only a matter of months away before large protests could be staged at famed museums like Chicago’s Field Museum, right? The museum has quite the display of Neanderthals. What about all the dinosaur bones at museums across the country? What are we to do about those?

Will there be covert evangelical teams infiltrating museums trying to sabotage fossil records?

Am I going to have to make signs that say “Keep you hands on my science”? I hope not.