Reply #14: They'll never get rid of national parks [View All]

[KamaAina]

they're too valuable as outlets for fundie creationist propaganda.

http://www.geotimes.org/mar04/NN_grandcanyoncreation.html

But a book sold at the park's bookstores since last fall says the canyon is merely 6,000 years old and was formed by Noah's flood, as described in the Bible. Compiled by a Colorado River rafting guide, Grand Canyon: A Different View was placed on shelves alongside science books and other interpretive histories of the canyon. The book has provoked a new round in the national debate about biblical creationism and the separation of church and state....

What the topic boils down to, Elders says, is whether or not religious views should be sold alongside science in a government bookstore. "I believe in freedom of expression and I am against censorship even for books such as this," he says. But as "the aim of this book is to proselytize for a particular narrow religious viewpoint, it should not be for sale in a government-sanctioned bookstore."...

Despite varying reports suggesting that the book was originally shelved under the "science" section, Barna says that the book was always in the inspirational section of the bookstore.

:wtf: Why is there an inspirational section in the bookstore at a flippin' national park?!