Monday August 29, 2005
Loony London - Men on Display in Zoo “Just Another Primate”
Evolution controversy has everything to do with abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research, etc.
August 29, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) - In one enclosure of the London England zoo, as was widely reported in the news last week, there is a new collection of sumptuous specimens of what the curators have called a “plague species”. This is a harsh label for any species, but in this case especially so because the species on display is Man.
In this very embarrassing zoological charade three brawny men and five shapely women have volunteered to strut around for a few days in their underwear and strategically placed fig leaves in an enclosure that was once the home of one or another species of bears. In the immortal words of the Zoo spokeswoman, the purpose of the exercise is that "Seeing people in a different environment, among other animals ... teaches members of the public that the human is just another primate.”
Which is strange, because I could have sworn that it was to teach members of the public that the London zoo spokeswomen is an idiot (Sorry, but ad homonym attacks sometimes seem so strangely appropriate.).
Anyway, it is a curious feature of LifeSiteNews that every so often we weigh in on the debate over Darwinian evolution in what is probably mistakenly thought to be motivated by an opposition to any explanation of life but strict fundamentalist creationism. Some have expressed puzzlement about our interest in evolution and wondered what on earth it has to do with the much more central and vital cultural issues of abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research, etc.
The answer, it is as good a time as any to point out, is everything. It has everything to do with it.
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