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Tulsa Zoo gets it right after all

Following up on the last post, great news: after massive reaction from the public, the board reversed the decision and there won't be a creationism display in Tulsa Zoo after all. Read about it here.

The original vote in favour of the display was 3-1; the new decision came after a 3-1 vote the other way. The lone holdout was Mayor Bill LaFortune - which just goes to show that there should be something to protect us from getting uneducated people voted into positions of responsibility.
 

Tulsa Zoo heading drainwards...

I don't know who's worse - the creationist phuckwhits, or the Tulsa Park and Recreative Board. At least the first bunch have an excuse; many of them are too dumb or too lazy to pick up a book and actually read something about the subject they claim to be such experts on. But you'd think that the Tulsa Park and Recreative Board, who run Tulsa zoo, should know better.

Instead, it seems that the park board are either thick, or there's a creationist mole or two among them, or they're too chickenshit to fight for what's right, or they just don't care. I just got this from the Center for Inquiry:

For ten years, evangelical Christian Dan Hicks has been vexed by the Tulsa Zoo's statue of Ganesh (the elephant-headed god of Hindu lore). And for ten years, he's tried to get the zoo to represent his religious perspective too.

Now he's got his chance: in June 2005, the Tulsa Park and Recreative Board, which governs the zoo, voted to install a creationist exhibit in the zoo - not far from its exhibit on evolutionary science.

Clicking here will take you to a page with a form letter to be sent to the decision makers. I urge you to do so if you care about the future of your children and their education.

Don't they have any actual scientists working at Tulsa Zoo? (Zoo: short for Zoological Park, where you'd expect them to have at least one Zoologist on staff, right?) If so, what are they doing about this?

Just by the way...

I did this little test to check on how loyal I am to "president" George Dubya. The result?

Your score is 0 on a scale of 1 to 10. You hate Bush with a writhing passion. You think he is an idiot, a liar, and a warmonger who has been a miserable failure as president. Nothing would give you greater pleasure than seeing him run out of the White House, except maybe seeing him dragged away in handcuffs.

...which says it all ;)