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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
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Category: Weirdness
Posted on: June 5, 2006 1:58 PM, by John Lynch
From Reuters:
A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday."The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the official said.
"A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery."
Well, that takes care of that burning question.
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Comments
Obviously, God wants a person of stronger faith... Can we take up a collection for 1-way tickets to Kiev for Pat Roberson, Bill Dembski, Casey Luskin?
Posted by: J-Dog
| June 5, 2006 2:06 PM
More evidence that natural selection is an effective method of "improving" the species.
Posted by: CanuckRob
| June 5, 2006 5:53 PM
God (Answering a reporter's question): You know, if he just hadn't qualified his statement...
Posted by: mythusmage
| June 6, 2006 4:10 AM
Don't drop your faith just yet...
As we know from the cult of the snake-tossers in "the hills of Zion," God protects the faithful from the venomous serpents (and jars of poison). But it's important for God to show us, lest we become skeptical of the real risk presented by the snakes or poison, that these things really can kill us. So go ahead, jump into the lions' cage--you now know they're really killers, but God will protect you. Don't wait too long, or it might be time again for God to demonstrate that they really can kill.
Posted by: mark
| June 6, 2006 12:55 PM
If the question was "Is this man insane?" then that would cover it. If the question was "does God exist?" then the experiment was badly flawed.
I trust everyone here is bright enough to realize that the story actually has nothing to do with the second question.
Posted by: Paul S
| June 6, 2006 3:12 PM