Umm, no, I don’t think Noah’s flood created the Grand Canyon
But apparently some folks in positions of authority are quite determined to ram their crackpot opinions down our throats. Why are these people so afraid of science? It's like a new wave of the Dark Ages or something.
I don't often post about politics (unlike my much-esteemed better half), but gah! The idiocy of this was just too much for me.
Posted: December 30th, 2006 under Miscellaneous.
Comments: 7
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Comment from John
Time: December 30, 2006, 3:30 pm
I’d almost prefer outright misinformation being propagated out of the national parks–a straight fight, as opposed to all this sneakin’ around, so to speak. The “no comment” is somehow scarier, a constant reminder that Big Brother is watching, and is actively malevolent rather than being merely ludicrous.
Fear and ignorance, though, are twins.
Comment from Lynne
Time: December 30, 2006, 4:17 pm
Ah, a Han Solo Star Wars reference, and one of my favorites. I, too, prefer a straight fight to sneakin’ around. :-)
If so many lives weren’t at stake, it’d almost be worth letting the fanatics have their little social experiment and see where it got them in, oh, twenty years. Some people just don’t learn until they’re allowed to have things completely their way and then experience the consequences.
Comment from Alice Audrey
Time: December 30, 2006, 11:57 pm
I don’t mind their learning, but not on my dime/time. Put real books in the Grand Canyon and get your religion out of my face, Bush.
Alice
Comment from James
Time: December 31, 2006, 6:35 pm
Next you’ll tell me that Jesus did not, in fact, ride into Jerusalem on a Dromeciomimus, and the colt of a Dromeciomimus. Skeptic! :P
I wouldn’t call this crap religion, either. One of the surest ways to establish your power over an organization is to order it to repeat crap that it knows is absurd… and have your orders followed. This and the related attempts to silence scientists are a war of authority backed by power against authority backed by reason.
I can’t wait to see the backs of this crew.
Comment from Edie Ramer
Time: January 1, 2007, 9:05 pm
Just more of the same old, same old. I’ll be so glad when this lot is out too. Bush is going to go down in history as our worst president ever.
Comment from TessaD
Time: January 2, 2007, 4:36 am
Ack! The worst part of that article was the part where they said the bookstore should carry the Creationist book because the bookstore is “like a library.” Hey, I’m a librarian, and we don’t purchase books just to “represent a wide range of views.” When selecting science material, we purchase books that have a solid grounding in actual science. We don’t purchase books like that, just like we don’t purchase books that deny the Holocaust. We may purchase books with biblical accounts of Creation, but we put them in the Religion section, not the Geology section. If they do have a book like that in their bookstore, I hope they shelve it with the legends, Native American and otherwise, about the canyon’s creation. That’s where it belongs.
Comment from Lynne
Time: January 3, 2007, 7:31 pm
I so agree, y’all. I’ll be glad for a return to reason and science!
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