Bartholomew has a lot more detail on Bishop Bonifes Adoyo, the head of the Pentecostal church in Kenya trying to get all the hominid fossils found there hidden from view in the national museum. As expected, he has a long history of nuttiness including claiming that golf might lead to demon possession.
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This will cause you to become rather angry, if you have any sense:
Powerful evangelical churches are pressing Kenya's national museum to sideline its world-famous collection of hominid bones pointing to man's evolution from ape to human.
Leaders of the country's six-million-strong Pentecostal…
Wired has a report on the attempt by Kenyan Pentecostals to get an exhibit of hominid fossils removed from the national museum there. It contains this idiotic quote:
"We are objecting to the message that the fossil exhibits represent the scientific evidence of human evolution," said Bishop Boniface…
The Middle East Times has a report on the attempt by Pentecostals in Kenya to do away with an exhibit at their national museum of some of the world's most important hominid fossils:
"When museums put it out there that man evolved from apes, theologically they are affecting many people who are…
Darwin's Evolution of Man.
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Richard Leakey, the famous paleoanthropologist, is battling with powerful evangelical church leaders in Kenya. These fundamentalist wingnuts are pressuring Kenya's national museum to hide its world-famous collection of hominid fossils that detail the evolution of…
What a total crackpot. Golf is a sign of demon possession.
And it's not a sport, it's a game [ducking].
Pough said: What a total crackpot. Golf is a sign of demon possession.
From my experience, it is the possession itself.