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Political appointees in the Bush administration have just had Grand Canyon National Park remove all plackards and signs which mentioned the estimated age of the canyon. What is more they also purged the park library and gift shops of any book which mentioned the age of the park then demanded that all the gift shops carry a new rightwing Christian fundimentalist book which claims the Grand Canyon is proof of Noah's biblical flood. 
Scientists are dismayed as ****ting on science and replacing it with the worst religious extremism is a repeated pattern of the Bush administration. Someone tell me why Bush isn't the worst President in living memory.
This is crap. All the more reason to remove 90% of all political appointees and have them replaced by professionals and have peer panels make the day to day decisions like this.
Scientists are dismayed as ****ting on science and replacing it with the worst religious extremism is a repeated pattern of the Bush administration. Someone tell me why Bush isn't the worst President in living memory.
Park Service inanity: they won't tell us how old the Grand Canyon is
According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) in a report released this week [PDF], 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.
Furthermore, a book approved by the Service claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood ,rather than by geologic forces, is on sale in the park for more than three years, even though a review was promised to Congress and the press. A Freedom of Information request [PDF] reveals that no review has ever been requested, nor taken place.
"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.'" PEER urged [PDF] the new Director of the National Park Service (NPS), Mary Bomar, to end the stalling tactics, remove the book from sale at the park and allow park interpretive rangers to honestly answer questions from the public about the geologic age of the Grand Canyon.
Hard to believe... where is Richard Dawkins when we need him?
According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) in a report released this week [PDF], 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.
Furthermore, a book approved by the Service claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood ,rather than by geologic forces, is on sale in the park for more than three years, even though a review was promised to Congress and the press. A Freedom of Information request [PDF] reveals that no review has ever been requested, nor taken place.
"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.'" PEER urged [PDF] the new Director of the National Park Service (NPS), Mary Bomar, to end the stalling tactics, remove the book from sale at the park and allow park interpretive rangers to honestly answer questions from the public about the geologic age of the Grand Canyon.
Hard to believe... where is Richard Dawkins when we need him?
This is crap. All the more reason to remove 90% of all political appointees and have them replaced by professionals and have peer panels make the day to day decisions like this.
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