CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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The Grand Canyon is How Old?

Saturday, May 26, 2007

this entry brought to you by nirvana, "all apologies"


I read something I wanted to share with you.

Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from the Bush administration from Bush appointees. Despite promising a prompt review of its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noahs flood rather than geologic forces, more than three years later no review has ever been done at the park, according to documents released today. "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'."

Not giving an approximate age of a naturally occuring geographic site to avoid offending religious fundamentalists is the equivalent of adding a question mark to a Holocaust Museum to avoid offending anti-Semites. If you believe that the Grand Canyon is less than millions of years old, you are wrong, and if you're offended, stay at home and never leave your house, because you're wrong, you'll always be wrong, and there's no way of getting around it. We shouldn't pander to these idiots. If they want to believe wrong things, and if they want to keep their children out of public schools in order for their children to also believe wrong things, then fuck 'em. They can avoid the trip to the beautiful national park and look in a book at pictures of the Grand Canyon, so they can stay in their little bubble where everything is wrong.

And as to the Bush administration giving pressures on this sort of thing, then fuck them too. If that were my job and I couldn't get around this, I'd quit my job. I honestly mean that.
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with love from CRS @ 10:03 AM 

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