dear god...

Alright. Let me get something perfectly clear. I have no real problem with religion. Religion is all fine and good, and helps people cope with life, and sometimes promotes good works of charity, etc. It can be a good force. But when people impose their own religious beliefs onto others, there's a problem.

Such is the case in Tulsa, where the town zoo is posting, get this, the creationist explanation for the creation of life. The creationist view, in case you didn't already know, is the one in which God created the Earth in 7 days, including this guy named Adam, and this lovely lady called Eve. Adam then set about naming all the animals (presumably whatever first came into his head. so how he decided on "duckbilled platypus" is anybody's guess). Now, using taxpayers money (this is a municipal zoo) to fund this nonsense is troublesome enough, but what really drives me absolutely mental is the justification for it:

"I see this as a big victory," said Dan Hicks, the Tulsa resident who approached the Tulsa Zoo with the idea for the exhibit. "It's a matter of fairness. To not include the creationist view would be discrimination."
Hundreds of people had signed a petition supporting a biblically based creation exhibit.

Ugh. So let me summarize. Displaying just un(credibly)disputed, scientific theory, backed by a great deal of precident and evidence is biased, but adding the beliefs of one religion isnt. While at least some of those paying for the exhibit are completely opposed to the idea of creationism. Yeah, makes a ton of sense right there.