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Posted on 13-08-2006
Evolution is a principle that sticks in the craw of some religions. After Intelligent Design and trying to force teaching of creationism have both failed, the next attack on Evolution is to try and hide the evidence from public view.
The Telegraph newspaper reports that in Kenya the 6 million strong Pentecostal church wants Dr Richard Leakey’s ground-breaking finds, housed in a museum near Nairobi relegated to a back room instead of being given their usual prime billing. The collection includes the most complete skeleton yet found of Homo erectus, the 1.7 million-year-old Turkana Boy unearthed by Dr Leakey’s team in 1984 at Nariokotome, near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.
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