Washington, DC — Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising a prompt review of its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood rather than by geologic forces, more than three years later no review has ever been done and the book remains on sale at the park, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
“In order to avoid offending religious fundamentalists, our National Park Service is under orders to suspend its belief in geology,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. “It is disconcerting that the official position of a national park as to the geologic age of the Grand Canyon is ‘no comment.’”
It never ceases to amaze me just how ignorant the fundamentalist Christians want us to be. It distubs me that the government of and for the American people muzzle public employees for the fundies. As Archie Bunker would say, "stifle it."
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At least the National Park website says this: "Geologic formations such as gneiss and schist found at the bottom of the Canyon date back 1,800 million years." But you gotta look for it. It oughta be on the front page.
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