A new Google Doodle celebrating the discovery of Lucy, a 3.18-million-year-old skeleton found 41 years ago in Ethiopia, is making some conservative Christians very angry.

Christians who support the discredited notion of Biblical creationism are outraged that Google is honoring a key scientific finding that serves to validate and reinforce the scientific truth of biological evolution.

Writing at Answers in Genesis, celebrity creationist and Christian fundamentalist Ken Ham notes:

As Google reminded us, today, November 24, 2015, marks the 41st anniversary of the discovery in Ethiopia of the australopithecine popularly known as Lucy. Today’s “Google Doodle” honors the supposed human ancestor and the drawing illustrates the worldview that believes in a supposed gradual evolution from ape to modern man, with Lucy in-between. According to evolutionists, Lucy is a human ancestor and walked on two legs, but Lucy wasn’t a human ancestor. She’s just an extinct variety of ape. Google isn’t promoting science—they are promoting an interpretation of the past that forms the basis of the atheistic religion of naturalism.

Unable to accept the scientific validity of biological evolution, Ham insists that Google is promoting “the atheistic religion of naturalism” –

… this Google Doodle highlights where our culture is headed. Our supposed evolutionary ancestry is increasingly being celebrated—but it’s nothing more than a major tenet of the religion of naturalism. Google isn’t promoting science—they are promoting an interpretation of the past that is a key idea in the atheistic religion of naturalism.

Ham is not alone in making irrational complaints about today’s Google Doodle marking the 41st anniversary of the discovery of Lucy.

Many conservative Christians are angry Google is celebrating the 41st anniversary of the discovery of Lucy, the 3.18-million-year-old Australopithecus fossil found at the Hadar research site in the Afar region of Ethiopia.

Lucy’s discovery was fundamental in helping scientists understand the evolution of apes into bipedal humans, and as such holds a special place of contempt for the “I did not come from a monkey” conservative Christian crowd.

A glance at Twitter confirms that many conservative Christians are angry about today’s Google Doodle:

Google no thanks for the evolution banner. Your promoting a unproven fairytale. The truth is GOD created the heavens and the earth.

— aaron Paul (@aaarrrooonnn) November 24, 2015

Google displaying ape to man evolution. If man came from ape – why are there still apes? Do not be deceived. God made us in His image. — A TRUE STORY (@AOverit) November 24, 2015

Shame on #google for their logo today. There is no evidence to support evolution of apes to man. Darwin even said it was a stupid theory. — William Burr (@TruthfromChrist) November 24, 2015

@google my web page shows google in evolution form. Gtbkm! What do you think are we are evolving to? I am changing search engines! OFFENDED — Ruthie Johnson (@dougswife82) November 24, 2015

And while it is amusing to note how many Christians reject accepted science to preserve their ignorant religious superstitions, it is also important to note that not all Christians reject biological evolution.

(H/T Friendly Atheist and Tech.Mic)