Posted by Hemant Mehta in Today’s Doonesbury talks about the Grand Canyon controversy. It’s not particularly funny, but it’s good that the story isn’t flying completely under the radar.
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[tags]Doonesbury, Grand Canyon, atheist, atheism, young earth, Creationism[/tags]
The strip isn’t quite accurate though, is it? The story you mentioned earlier didn’t say anything about park officials not being allowed to tell the geological age of the Canyon. Or have there been more recent developments?
I was horrified by this PEER press release, but as a self-respecting atheist and skeptic I was also … um … skeptical. Another comment contains a link to the National Parks Traveler’s blog on which he writes what his research on this revealed (simply not the truth.) I did about six seconds of googling and found this site: wherein the National Park Service explains in the first paragraph how old the canyon is thought to be.
As to the book, yes it appears to be on the shelf, but not as science. It’s there with the rest of the religious nonsense, including the Native American superstitions. Maybe we should all take a breath. We must be careful not to succomb to the same hysteria and silly “belief” activity as the god people.