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. . . . “In order to avoid offending religious fundamentalists, our National Park Service is under orders to suspend its belief in geology,” stated PEER [Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility] 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.’”The report goes on to discuss that, after rejecting dozens of scholarly scientific books and articles for sale at the Grand Canyon National Park, the sole new item approved for sale was a book claiming that the Grand Canyon was suddenly cut out into the earth by Noah's flood.
(h/t to A Spork in the Drawer)
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