http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060905-064937-7210r
what do christians / non-christians think of the "Origins of Man" exhibit of the Kenyan museum? and this quote from Bishop Boniface Adoyo?
"It's creating a big weapon against Christians that's killing our faith," - Bishop Boniface Adoyo
2006-12-14 12:18:50 · 13 answers · asked by Pisces 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"The 'Origins of Man' exhibit, comprised of prehistoric finds from around Africa's Great Rift Valley.."
if you didnt read that, it doesnt imply something drawn. dear
2006-12-14 12:32:51 · update #1
Christianity survives on ignorance, blind faith, and fear-tactics; no wonder some of them consider the exhibit a "weapon against Christians." I think this unnatural fear of science shows how weak the ideas they try so hard to sell really are.
I think challenges to their faith are even scarier for them since we live in an era where Christianity (usually) does not burn, maim, or torture the opposition.
2006-12-14 12:40:06 · answer #1 · answered by x_cindergirl_x 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah...I love your "quote" up there. Why don't you put the whole paragraph...instead of just making it sound like this guy was questioning his own faith? Better yet, I'll do it for you:
"When museums put it out there that man evolved from apes, theologically they are affecting many people who are Christians, who believe God created us," says Bishop Boniface Adoyo, who is leading a campaign against the exhibit. "It's creating a big weapon against Christians that's killing our faith," he said, calling evolution theory an "insult" and dangerous to youths. "When children go to museums they'll start believing we evolved from these apes.
I read insult in the very same sentence.....
2006-12-14 12:24:24 · answer #2 · answered by Allen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most Museums will have similar exhibits. This is standard. I do agree that this kind of thing is misleading millions of people who trust scientist and Museums as being truthful.
I would venture a guess that maybe 75% of the people who accept evolution as a fact do not know that is is a hoax, and the other 25% are deliberately lying.
There is no way an educated man (scientist) after looking at the evidence and at both sides of this issue can possibly believe in evolution-unless he is paid very well for believing it.
2006-12-14 12:32:19 · answer #3 · answered by Terrence J 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thre are two seperate and distinct creation stories in Genesis. In one god mad man first, in the oother God made man last.
Christianity aside I would like to point out that the fossils are 1 million years old. That is a long time ago. For that reason I posit that Egypt was nat the beginning of civilization, but the end of a very very old one. Just thought I throw that out there cause historians like gloss over the fact that civilization (not just humanity) has its roots in Africa.
2006-12-14 12:26:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though I am a Christian, I have problems with this from a purely logical standpoint. If there isn't ANY sound evidence for this theory of the origin of man, WHY is it in museums? And yes, I am serious. It has been disproved, it is all an imaginary drawing. Research it! (not on National Geographic...)
2006-12-14 12:23:36 · answer #5 · answered by WV girl 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
As I Christian, I find any discussion regarding my faith or people's lack of faith interesting. There's no use in closing our minds off to the world around us, I believe God gave us a brain for a reason and I welcome the exhibit. Doesn't mean I believe its premise though heh! :P
But hey, such is the nature of free will eh?
2006-12-14 12:24:34 · answer #6 · answered by Nadege 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The truth is the truth. Evolution is real and GOD made it that way. For humans to say that it isn't real is to tell God how to work - it is the epitome of human arrogance. For those that think that evolution is "against God", they don't understand evolution. Extinction proves evolution. An understanding, even basic, of how DNA works, makes evolution a "slam dunk" - its quite brilliant in how it works, and "God" created it, and I for one am not going to tell "God" that "God" is wrong. BTW: to me "God" is the natural universe, not a supernatural myth.
2006-12-14 12:26:41 · answer #7 · answered by Paul H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hay! Don't forget the bible says "No weapon formed against us shall prosper" No one call kill a Christians faith as long as they are into His word. "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God"
2006-12-14 12:23:50 · answer #8 · answered by white dove 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, you'd think something that was perfect and true couldn't be touched by a weapon, let alone a few bones that were dug up and displayed in chronological branching order.
Guess his faith isn't doing so good lately.
2006-12-14 12:20:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
They need to put in a Creation Museum like the one in Cinncinnati to combat it.
2006-12-14 12:23:23 · answer #10 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋