Scientific Evidence Versus Church Dogma

"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.......

"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."

Comment: The Bishop seems willing to impose restrictions on the vast majority of people, Kenyans, and Christians who think that the evidence for human evolution should be on view. Of course he believes his doctrine is right, but he might notice that there have been a lot of doctrinal disputes in the past among Christians, and not all the participants in those could have been right. I say, let the evidence be viewed. JAD