Yodelling Up The Wrong Canyon...

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Scientists tizzy over creationist book for sale at Grand Canyon Park Services

One thing should be a given. The Grand Canyon was NOT formed 6000 years ago as a result of Noah's flood. It is at least 60 million years old, and before such make-believe literatures found their way into the National Park system, the Director had approved the following:

"History of the Earth must be based on the best scientific evidence available, as found in scholarly sources that have stood the test of scientific peer review and criticism. Interpretive and educational programs must refrain from appearing to endorse religious beliefs explaining natural processes.”

The Director was however over-ruled by Bush Administration "officials" who promised a quick hearing on the matter then promptly forgot about doing so, and the book in question, which will not be named here as it is a fanciful work undeserving of a plug from any person of good will, wormed it's way onto the shelves of the park gift shops.

Now, I don't care that works of fiction are for sale in our parks but this ticks me off. A little. Not a lot because I feel a certain amount of pity for otherwise intelligent people who continue to make fools of themselves. All of us are capable of doing stupid things, but we are not moslems or some other idiotic cult that must force religious beliefs upon the masses in order to someday rule the world. We're supposed to be different from them, not in competition to see who might foster the most nonsense upon impressionable minds. They send people to kill us who believe that doing so guarantees them a good seat in the clouds and I harken back to the old refrain of how religion should be a private matter and not in the business of shoving reality aside so as to score points with one's deity.

This makes people of faith seem stupid. It agitates those who have devoted their lives to the truth, and I can understand why the sciences become so enraged when a believer does something so inane. If it were just THEM, and not something approved of by the President of the United States, I'd tsk-tsk it off, but please now. It's a perfect example of why folks become so agitated and want to assure a "seperation of church and state".