Seattlest: Creationists Jump the Ark

kevin bracken

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:33:22 -0800

This is hilarious :D Gotta love those Christians, always saying something ridiculous. How old is the world, now? 5,000 years?

Seth

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:53:12 -0800

Courtney, why can't you just love the Lord?

Courtney

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:10:25 -0800

Er, here's what I said over at the Slog after Annie chastised me as well (in a post just following Charles Mudede's proposition that suggests children be removed from their parents' care if they're religious): "Jeez, can't a girl blows off a little steam? (Yes, I dug around the NPS site and found the same page that Ronald found.) But if you read PEER more closely, the complaint is two-fold: there's the damn book (that issue dates back to 2003) and then there's the claim that, under previous NPS leadership, Grand Canyon rangers were pressured to tiptoe around the science if asked. I don't know that this is true, but when I hear back from the science and PR offices at the Grand Canyon (they are closed today because of Gerald Goddamned Ford) then I'll write more. Yes, this isn't brand-spanking new stuff: the PEER press release is re-fanning a fire that purportedly folks from the NPS let die down intentionally, and with a new director at the helm (the second one appointed by Bush, I might add) they're hoping to get more traction. Fan away, I say..." As for what the NPS Grand Canyon web site says on that page vs. what is going on with rangers and scientists on staff at the park, I hope to find out when I hear back from someone there. If PEER is distorting the issue, I'll call shenanigans. In the meantime, I just used this as an excuse for my favorite rant. Anyone from my family reading this (hi mom!) is probably familiar with that old shtick.

mr skin

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:30:27 -0800

Hah! That is a good one. Religious fund whosie whatsis?

Ronald

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:26:04 -0800

But wait, Courtney, hasn't this story been around for the past week? And the claim that the Park Service won't give the "age" of the Grand Canyon for fear of offending conservatives and creationists...that's belied by their own website. http://www.nps.gov/grca/naturescience/naturalfeaturesandecosystems.htm Hey, I'm all for bashing rightwing eejits at every opportunity, but I'm not sure this is one of them.