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'''Ota Benga''' was a [[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|accessdate=2008-07-07|publisher=Creationresearch.org}}</ref>

'''Ota Benga''' was a [[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|accessdate=2008-07-07|publisher=Creationresearch.org}}</ref>

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= 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

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= 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= Harun Yahya

|author= Harun Yahya

|title= The Evolution Deceit

|title= The Evolution Deceit