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Well the latest nonsense from the monkey-worshipers is to tour a box of old nigra bones and charge admission to all the gullible liebtrals who believe that their grandfather was an ape. "Lucy" is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on Mankind! THIS is nothing but God-mockery!!
Right. I'm so sure that Godly White Christians are going to flock to heathen Ethiopia after looking at a pile of monkeybones in an American secular museum. If folks really want to know about the origins of Mankind, all they have to do is read the Holy Bible, or visit THIS Godly museum. Praise Jesus.
Ethiopians fret as "Lucy" skeleton heads to U.S.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopians worried on Tuesday that the fragile bones of their world-famous skeleton -- the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" -- may not survive a six year U.S. tour.
The fossil and 190 other heritage items left Ethiopia at the start of the week for the Houston National Museum of Natural Science, a museum official told Reuters.
Lucy had been officially scheduled to go on tour some time this month. But the quiet nature of her first departure from Ethiopia in more than three decades surprised locals.
"A fossil like Lucy is so rare and so fragile that it should only be moved out of the country if there is a compelling reason that would benefit the nation in a unique way," Zeray Alemseged, a well-known Ethiopian paleontologist, told Reuters.
He discovered the remains of another 3 million-year-old girl known as "Selam" in 2000 in the remote Afar region, where Lucy was discovered in 1974 by U.S. scientist Donald Johanson.
"The question that should be asked is whether the amount of money that will be earned from this trip is worth the risk we are taking," he said.
Lucy's fossilized skeleton is thought to be between 3 million and 4 million years old and was hailed by experts as the earliest hominid ever discovered.
Scientists say the almost complete skeleton is a landmark in the search for the origins of humanity. But few Ethiopians have glimpsed the treasure.
"Why should Lucy be seen by Americans when Ethiopians have only seen her twice?" said 34-year-old administrator Dilu Kebede in Addis Ababa.
The "Lucy" normally on display at the Ethiopian National Museum is a replica as the real remains have been locked away.
"I worry that it may break apart," said Yoseph Tensai, a 46-year-old marijuana shop owner. "But I think it is good for Ethiopia to show our treasure to the world."
The government said last year the tour, expected to move on to 10 other U.S. museums and last until 2013, would boost tourist interest in Ethiopia.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopians worried on Tuesday that the fragile bones of their world-famous skeleton -- the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" -- may not survive a six year U.S. tour.
The fossil and 190 other heritage items left Ethiopia at the start of the week for the Houston National Museum of Natural Science, a museum official told Reuters.
Lucy had been officially scheduled to go on tour some time this month. But the quiet nature of her first departure from Ethiopia in more than three decades surprised locals.
"A fossil like Lucy is so rare and so fragile that it should only be moved out of the country if there is a compelling reason that would benefit the nation in a unique way," Zeray Alemseged, a well-known Ethiopian paleontologist, told Reuters.
He discovered the remains of another 3 million-year-old girl known as "Selam" in 2000 in the remote Afar region, where Lucy was discovered in 1974 by U.S. scientist Donald Johanson.
"The question that should be asked is whether the amount of money that will be earned from this trip is worth the risk we are taking," he said.
Lucy's fossilized skeleton is thought to be between 3 million and 4 million years old and was hailed by experts as the earliest hominid ever discovered.
Scientists say the almost complete skeleton is a landmark in the search for the origins of humanity. But few Ethiopians have glimpsed the treasure.
"Why should Lucy be seen by Americans when Ethiopians have only seen her twice?" said 34-year-old administrator Dilu Kebede in Addis Ababa.
The "Lucy" normally on display at the Ethiopian National Museum is a replica as the real remains have been locked away.
"I worry that it may break apart," said Yoseph Tensai, a 46-year-old marijuana shop owner. "But I think it is good for Ethiopia to show our treasure to the world."
The government said last year the tour, expected to move on to 10 other U.S. museums and last until 2013, would boost tourist interest in Ethiopia.
Did you see the fat hellbound dothead goth's warning against jumping to conclusions? I think you could learn a valuable lesson from it.
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