They Are Attacking Science Itself

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

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.

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They will stop at nothing to retain the power they believe they have been given in the past six years. They are attacking the very foundations of the scientific method, not just the conclusions. They are creating a very dangerous situation akin to the fundamentalism of the Islamic religion.