Creation creep

Ganesh
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All this talk that "Intelligent Design" is not a mask for creationism is just so much blather. Via MaxSpeaks, The mask slips a little bit in Tulsa.

TULSA, Okla. - The Tulsa Zoo will add a display featuring the biblical account of creation following complaints to a city board about other displays with religious significance, including a Hindu elephant statue.

The Tulsa Park and Recreation Board voted 3-1 on Tuesday in favor of a display depicting God's creation of the world in six days and his rest on the seventh, as told in Genesis, the first book of the Bible.

Seems the fundies didn't like the fact that a statue of Ganesh was next to the elephant exhibit and want equal time for their nutty beliefs. I guess it's a proxy fight for who has the better god.

Zoo officials had argued that the zoo does not advocate religion and that displays like the elephant statue are meant to show the animal's image among cultures. The same exhibit includes the Republican Party's elephant symbol.

Hah! Don't they realize the Republican Party is a religion?