Silly ideas are killing religion

Submitted by rernst on Thu, 02/08/2007 - 6:03am

According to evangelists in Kenya, anyhow.

The full quote:

"I did not evolve from Turkana Boy or anything like it," says Bishop Boniface Adoyo, head of the country's 35 evangelical denominations, which he claims has around 10 million followers. "These sorts of silly views are killing our faith."

Go stick your head in the sand... see how much good it does you. If I were Mr Adoyo, I would have died of irony poisoning already.

Religious leaders are apparently calling upon their followers to 'boycott' the exhibit. Of course, by 'boycott', they actually mean 'smash'.... you just wait and see as the priceless historical record is destroyed by fear and ignorance. For the sake of history, I hope what the museum puts out are reproductions.

This one's a gem, too:

He's calling on his flock to boycott the exhibition and has demanded the museum relegate the fossil collection to a back room -- carrying some kind of warning that evolution is not a fact but merely one of a number of theories.

And what theories would those be? Spontaneous Generation? Young-Earth creationism?

Comments

Submitted by Donald (not verified) on Thu, 02/08/2007 - 10:27am.

Teapots?

Submitted by ws (not verified) on Thu, 02/08/2007 - 10:37am.

<fake annoyance>Geez, just when I'd just added a sneakly little title to the 'Teapots' entry in the sidebar</fake annoyance>

The 'Teapots' category is my new category for articles concerning religion. Clicking on that category reveals that the common thread in those posts is about religion.

Bertrand Russell came up with an analogy to religion that I think it suitable:

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

/me thanks wikipedia (Full entry on Russell's Teapot).

Submitted by Donald (not verified) on Thu, 02/08/2007 - 11:41am.

Ahhh, that makes much more sense now.

Submitted by ws (not verified) on Thu, 02/08/2007 - 11:50am.

probably about as much sense as I usually make...

Submitted by MMSS (not verified) on Thu, 02/08/2007 - 4:14pm.

Obviosuly none of you have been embraced by the noodly appendages of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Submitted by ws (not verified) on Thu, 02/08/2007 - 7:21pm.

Bah, all you Pastafarians are but tools of the Purple Oyster. Tools, I say...

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