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	Interesting as it demonstrates how opponents of evolution 
distort basic understandings of human evolution. Humans did not 
evolve from monkeys or chimpanzees as claimed by Bishop Boniface 
Adoyo but have a common ancestor. This claim has been used since 
Darwin's time (cartoons depicting Darwin as a great ape were very 
popular in his day) and continue to today. Interestingly, there was 
no correction to this misunderstanding which has been used to 
ridicule the idea of human evolution.

I think that we, as science interpreters, have to vigorous in 
confronting misstatements of fact  about evolution, as in all science 
as they play on deeply held misconceptions.

To better living through evolution.

Martin

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>Kenya: Evangelicals Wage Anti-Evolution War
>A bronze sculpture at the entrance of the Museum. It details the 
>development of man.
>
>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.
>
>Bishop Boniface Adoyo of Nairobi Pentecostal Church (NPC), Christ is 
>the Answer Ministries, is championing the 'hide-the-fossils' 
>campaign, which has left scientists and historians perplexed.
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>Three-page article found here: http://allafrica.com/stories/200701120826.html
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>Amanda Chesworth
>Educational Director, CSI
>Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
>http://www.csicop.org
>Inquiring Minds Program
>http://www.inquiringminds.org
>Camp Inquiry
>http://www.campinquiry.org
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VP, Science
New York Hall of Science

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