Primitive is as Primitive does.
Evangelicals Wage Anti-Evolution War
The East African Standard (Nairobi) NEWS
January 12, 2007
Kenya's world-class collection of hominid bones - primates belonging to a family of which the modern human being is the only species still in existence - is at the centre of a silent but intense war being waged by a section of the evangelical churches.
The priceless National Museums of Kenya (NMK) fossils pointing to man's evolution risk being relegated to the abyss as a section of the Church renews its war on science insisting that the evolution theory contradicts the biblical story of creation.
the Chairman of Evangelical Alliance of Kenya that represents 35 churches with a membership of six million faithful, says the theory confuses children who frequent the museum on educational tours. "I'm worried that children will believe we evolved from monkeys. Yet this is not the truth that's killing our faith," he says.
Saturday Standard has learnt that the alliance has enlisted a number of Western institutions to raise funds for anti-hominid campaigns in the media and through religious sermons.
The church plans to hold major demonstrations to the museum to press for the removal of the bones.
This campaign comes shortly before a new-look museum is unveiled mid this year. A multi-million European Union-funded expansion and renovation project will see the museum display fossils of pre-historic man, widely believed to be the ancestors of the present human beings. Once completed, the museum will have 13 galleries including the controversial "Origin of Man." It is this display that triggered the fury of the evangelicals.At the heart of the controversy is what Dr Mzalendo Kibunjia, NMK's director of sites and monuments, calls "our jewel" - an almost complete skeleton of Homo erectus commonly known as the 'Turkana Boy'.
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