If you've ever felt ashamed because other countries seem able to deal with the world around them, while the United States is constantly embroiled in a war over facts established more than a century ago, take heart! We are not alone.
Evangelical church leaders in Kenya are attempting to force the national museum to shove the world's greatest collection of hominid fossils into a dusty back room. Richard Leakey, whose family collected many of these fossils, including a nearly complete skeleton of Homo erectus, is fighting the attempt, but... hey, see if this sounds familiar.
"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.
Feel better now?