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  1. SusScrofa

    SusScrofa Well-Known Member

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    Didn't see this story posted before but earlier this month, two baboons escaped their enclosure after a keeper failed to properly lock it. One of the escaped baboons bit the keeper and was subsequently shot and killed.

    Escaped baboon was shot and killed at Branson's Promised Land Zoo

    Anyone been to this place? I'm not anti-religion or anything, but a creationist zoo just seems.... odd, to say the least. Can't say this story helped.
     
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    TinoPup Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Where are you getting that they're creationists?
     
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    Are they not? They're advertises as a faith-based zoo, which to me is code for creationist.
     
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    Well, they're sticking close to scripture anyway. They're letting the animals escape two by two.
     
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    Reviews on tripadvisor say that Bible verses pervade the zoo exhibits (reviewers thought it was a positive, though). Sounds like creationism to me.
     
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    TinoPup Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I have never seen anything indicating being "faith based". It's just their name. They don't even push "merry christmas" in december. Also, religious doesn't mean creationist. Most christians are not creationists, it's a small (but sometimes vocal) faction. This place posts a lot about conservation and things like that (how much they follow through, idk).
     
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    TinoPup Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    That is a better example, one that I didn't know, and one they don't share on social media at all. It still doesn't make them creationist, though.