Bishop Boniface Adoyo is a Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

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Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

 and head of the 10 million member Evangelical Association of Kenya.

Adoyo holds a Master of Divinity

Master of Divinity

In the academic study of theology, the Master of Divinity is the first professional degree of the pastoral profession in North America...

 degree and also studied economics at the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

. Today he oversees Christ in the Answer Ministries (CITAM), an influential congregation in Nairobi. He is also Chancellor of Pan African Christian University.

Adoyo has caused international controversy through his crusade against evolution. Although he has no training in science, he argues that macroevolution

Macroevolution

Macroevolution is evolution on a scale of separated gene pools. Macroevolutionary studies focus on change that occurs at or above the level of species, in contrast with microevolution, which refers to smaller evolutionary changes within a species or population.The process of speciation may fall...

 is an unproven theory which should not be taught to children as fact, despite its empirical observance. The Associated Press

Associated Press

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 reported that Adoyo is mobilizing Kenyan Christians to boycott the Nairobi Museum

National Museums of Kenya

The National Museums of Kenya is a State Corporation that manages Museums, Sites and Monuments in Kenya. It also practices scientific research. Its headquarters and the National Museum are located on Museum Hill, near Uhuru Highway between Central Business District and Westlands in Nairobi...

 which house the Turkana boy

Turkana Boy

Turkana Boy, also occasionally, Nariokotome Boy is the common name of fossil KNM-WT 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid who died in the early Pleistocene. This specimen is the most complete early human skeleton ever found. It is 1.5 million years old...

 fossils. In a campaign christened "hide the bones," Kenyan evangelicals have demanded the removal of Turkana boy from display. He has since held media debates with Kenya's renowned palaentologist Richard Leakey

Richard Leakey

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey...

over the subject.