Changes

[[File:Ota Benga at Bronx Zoo.jpg|thumb|Ota Bega in the Bronx Zoo]]

[[File:Ota Benga at Bronx Zoo.jpg|thumb|Ota Bega in the Bronx Zoo]]

'''Ota Benga''' was a [[Pygmy]] man who was dehumanized by [[Darwinian]] [[racism]] and was placed on display alongside an [[orangutan]] at the Bronx Zoo in 1906. This incident reveals the racism and the horrors of the [[theory of evolution]] propagated by [[Charles Darwin]].<ref name=CREATIONRESEARCH>{{cite web|url=http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/30/otabenga.html|title=Ota Benga: The Story of the Pygmy on Display in a Zoo|author=Jerry Bergman|format=HTML|accessdate=2008-07-07|publisher=Creationresearch.org}}</ref>

'''Ota Benga''' was a [[Pygmy|pygmy]] man dehumanized by [[evolutionary racism|evolutionary racists]] and placed on display alongside an [[orangutan]] at the Bronx Zoo in 1906. This incident reveals the potential for [[racism]] under the [[theory of evolution]] propagated by [[Charles Darwin]].<ref name=CREATIONRESEARCH>{{cite web|url=http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/30/otabenga.html|title=Ota Benga: The Story of the Pygmy on Display in a Zoo|author=Jerry Bergman|format=HTML|accessdate=2008-07-07|publisher=Creationresearch.org}}</ref>

Ota Benga lived in the Kasai region<ref name="TE">{{cite book

Ota Benga lived in the Kasai region<ref name="TE">{{cite book|author=Fatimah Tobing Rony|title=The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle|publisher=Duke University Press|location= |year= 1996|pages= p. 157|isbn= 0822318407|oclc=|doi=}}</ref> of the [[Congo]], but lost his family in a mishap. Samuel Phillips Verner, a businessman influenced by the theories of Charles Darwin,<ref name=CREATIONRESEARCH/> went to [[Africa]] in order to find pygmies for exhibition. In 1904, Ota and several other pygmies were shipped across the Atlantic and displayed<ref name="CAHC">{{cite book|author=Haviland et. al.|title=Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge|publisher=Thomson Wadsworth|location= |year= 2005|pages= p81|isbn= 0534624871|oclc=|doi=}}</ref> by [[Theory of evolution|evolutionist]] scientists<ref name="ED87">{{cite book|author=Harun Yahya|title=The Evolution Deceit|publisher=Global Yayincilik|location=|year=|pages=p87|isbn=9758718819|oclc=|doi=}}</ref> at a World's Fair in Saint Louis, Missouri.<ref name="CAHC"/> Evolutionist scientists described him as "the closest transitional link to man".<ref name="ED87"/> The fair was successful and the pygmies were shipped back to Africa, where Verner and Ota collected many artifacts. Both men returned to the [[United States]] in the summer of 1906, where Ota was handed over to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and later transported to the Bronx Zoo.<ref name="CAHC"/> The evolutionist<ref name="ED88">{{cite book

|author= Fatimah Tobing Rony

|title= The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle

|publisher= Duke University Press

|location=  

|year= 1996

|pages= p157

|isbn= 0822318407

|oclc=

|doi=

}}</ref> in [[Congo]], but lost his family in a mishap. A businessman named Samuel Phillips Verner, who was influenced by the theories of Charles Darwin,<ref name=CREATIONRESEARCH/> went to [[Africa]] in 1904 to bring pygmies for exhibition where he found Ota. In 1904, Ota along with several other pygmies were shipped across the Atlantic and were displayed<ref name="CAHC">{{cite book

|author= Haviland et. al.

|title= Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge

|publisher= Thomson Wadsworth

|location=  

|year= 2005

|pages= p81

|isbn= 0534624871

|oclc=

|doi=

}}</ref> by [[Theory of evolution|evolutionist]] scientists<ref name="ED87">{{cite book

|author= Harun Yahya

|title= The Evolution Deceit

|publisher= Global Yayincilik

|location=  

|year=  

|pages= p87

|isbn= 9758718819

|oclc=

|doi=

}}</ref> at a World's Fair in Saint Louis, Missouri.<ref name="CAHC"/> Evolutionist scientists described him as "the closest transitional link to man".<ref name="ED87"/> The fair was successful for its organizers and the pygmies were shipped back to Africa where Verner collected many artifacts with the help of Ota. He returned to the [[United States]] in the summer of 1906 along with Ota Benga. Ota was handed over to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and was later transported to the Bronx Zoo.<ref name="CAHC"/> The evolutionist<ref name="ED88">{{cite book

|author= Harun Yahya

|author= Harun Yahya

|title= The Evolution Deceit

|title= The Evolution Deceit