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Why Was The Cincinnati Zoo Even Thinking Of Working With Creationists?
December 2nd, 2008
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Unfortunately, I have to claim Cincinnati as my hometown. Now I live in that mecca for heathens, Chicago…and I love it!!!
It is no surprise that the Cincinnati Zoo would have at one time entered into some kind of arrangement with the Creation Museum. It is, after all, located in the Southern most (in its attitudes) of the Northern cities.
You’re referring to a city that didn’t just leave some 19th century draconian city charter on the books allowing the termination of employees based on sexual orientation. They INSTITUTED it in the early 90s and only repealed it in 2006.
Don’t get me wrong. There are some good, progressive people in Cincinnati (Hamilton County did vote blue this election). But, for the most part, it’s extremely socially conservative.
Joe:
I was going to ask that. To me, Cincinnati always has had the reputation of being pretty conservative for a “big” city. So OW’s story doesn’t surprise me one bit.
Yeah but even though the city is southernish, the people who work at the zoo should know science at least.
From what I read, apparently the Zoo thought of it in the same way other organizations think of cross-promotions with other entities: as a way to promote tourism. Somehow it didn’t occur to them to realize that the Creation Museum was a joke unworthy of being branded with the Zoo. For all of the pretense, the Creation Museum is a religious entity, not a scientific one, and the Zoo is of course, totally scientific. I wonder what they were thinking: that those who went to the Creation Museum would buy the evolutionary science of the zoo.