HOW OLD IS THE GRAND CANYON? PARK SERVICE WON’'T SAY

[Tom Johnson (via Google Docs)]

This appears to be legit, I'm afraid.



HOW OLD IS THE GRAND CANYON? PARK SERVICE WON'T SAY
http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=801

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.'"


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[Douglas Roberts-2]

I hate fundamentalist religions.

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On 12/29/06, J T Johnson <jtjohnson555 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> This appears to be legit, I'm afraid.
>
>
>
> HOW OLD IS THE GRAND CANYON? PARK SERVICE WON'T SAY
> http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=801
>
> 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.'"
>
>
> --
> ==========================================
> J. T. Johnson
> Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
> www.analyticjournalism.com
> 505.577.6482(c)                                 505.473.9646(h)
> http://www.jtjohnson.com                 tom at jtjohnson.us
>
> "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
> To change something, build a new model that makes the
> existing model obsolete."
>                                                    -- Buckminster Fuller
> ==========================================
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[Michael Gizzi]

On 12/29/06, Douglas Roberts <doug at parrot-farm.net> wrote:
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> I hate fundamentalist religions.
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Yeah, what he said....  What a crock...
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