Last month, I posted that Tulsa Oklahoma's Park and Recreation Board voted in favor of presenting a creationist exhibit at the city's zoo. I'm a couple weeks late on this news, but fortunately the decision was reversed! On July 7, the Board voted 3-1 against adding the Genesis exhibit. From the Associated Press:
Although he has taken a visible role in the effort, (Dan) Hicks (who pushed for the exhibit and offered to pay for it) said he was only one of 300 people interested in bringing the creationist exhibit to the zoo. Following Thursday's vote, Hicks said those 300 would have to decide what to do next but there would be appeals to the mayor.
In the meantime, the zoo continues to have a representation of a Hindu god, a globe sculpture that promotes pantheism and a Maasai display that contains the equivalent of posting Scripture, Hicks said. Presenting this material represented an affront to the majority Christian population of Tulsa, he said.
"There must be something very special about the Genesis account for opponents to fight so hard to suppress those words," Hicks said.
Link (Thanks, Mike Ransom!)
