Did you know that park rangers at the Grand Canyon are now banned from telling people how old it is?

Question

In yet another disgusting attempt to legitimize the fairy-tale that is "intelligent design", park rangers and BANNED from telling people the truth; that is, the age of the canyon.
Instead, there are plaques explaining that all of this erosion was caused by, get this, the "great flood".
Can you believe this outright ignorance? How is it possible for a country so technologically advanced as the USA, to ignore reality and attribute a geological formation that took millions of years, to a fairy tale story in an outdated book of bronze-age jewish mythology?
I wish this was just a bad joke folks but the story is here;
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-01-10.html

Just the thought of that kind of ignorance in this day and age is utterly repugnant. Let alone the fact that the people who are supposed to educate the public about a national park, are being instructed to lie about it.

Fireball is a typical christian. "duh, learning hurts my head. Me not click on link that don't show a monkey drinking his own pee..."

Well done.

Lightfoot, you're a moron.
Did you know that?
EVERY geologist with a REAL degree agrees and knows full well that the grand canyon was caused by slow erosion. Period.
ANYONE with proof to the contrary would assure themselves of a place in scientific history by demonstrating the opposite.
But they haven't yet? Gee, I wonder why?

Mantazma,
No, that sounds like more pious fraud. That's when a christian lies (as you have done) to try and make a point. The only point here is; you christians will stoop lower and lower to force your mythology down people's throats.
And you know what? It's not working. And that's what pisses you off.

Answer 1

That is the saddest thing I've heard in a long time. I genuinely fear for the future of our children. Geesh. Just when you think you've heard everything.

Answer 2

I find that hard to believe. In fact I don't Ignorant people exist of all side of the political spectrum apparently.

This quote is from the Grand Canyon official website, operated by the park service.

"Paleontological resources in Grand Canyon's sediments are diverse. The semi-arid climate and cold temperatures deep within canyon caves have combined to create a perfect environment for preservation of ancient materials. Pleistocene and Holocene remains have been unearthed within many of these caves. Some of the paleofauna and paleoflora that have been found include algal mats and bacterial spores over a billion years old, mummified dung and hair about 11,000 years old, and a multitude of additional body and trace fossils from the Paleozoic Era, 550-250 million years ago. Also, sedimentary units exposed throughout the Canyon, are rich with marine fossils such as chrinoids and brachiopods."

Answer 3

The Nile River in Egypt is as old as the Colorado River, and probably even older. If age and continual flow are the key factors, why hasn’t the Nile River cut out a canyon as big, or at least similar to, the Grand Canyon? Then there’s the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Rio Grande, and many other old waterways. Why haven’t they hewed out canyons? Well, why?

You really haven't done any research on the subject, have you?

Answer 4

What's utterly repugnant is your insistence on it being formed over millions of years. Who says? Whose been watching? Remember when Mt St Helens blew creating a similar but smaller canyon within days? Now if we had not seen that eruption, I'm sure all you people would be jumping up and down about how long it took to form. Problem for you is, we saw it. We actually have proof that these types of formations can be done very quickly. Talking about dogma, your the epitome of it. There will always be two sides of the interpretation of evidence.

Answer 5

Now calm down, I am not a creationist or anything but, Science is well known to have problems dating acurately with out human records, for instance the Spinx has been aged 5000 years old then 10000 years old some even think older. With that said if we dont know for sure why claim we do. And about the flood actually after the last Ice age when many glaciers reseeded and melted their was a rapid water level increase (Great Flood

Answer 6

Yes...I had read a story about it. There was especially a big to-do about selling a book with the God-version of how the Grand Canyon came about.

Very sad indeed. I guess next we'll have to have people at Mt. Rushmore explain that god waved a magic wand there....

Answer 7

Actually thats not true. Michael Shermer and Skeptic.com printed a retraction saying they had not checked their sources. While there is a Creationist book in the bookstore, the story about the Rangers was a fabrication.

Answer 8

If you go to the website National Park Service website for teh Grand Canyon at http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/parks/grca/ you will read, "We do know, however, that the erosion which has shaped the canyon has occurred only in the past five to six million years—only yesterday, considering the age of the rocks through which the Canyon is carved. "

This hoax is busted

Answer 9

I wonder why it is that everyone is so afraid of a different perspective when studying evidence that everyone has access to? No one has been here long enough to test the theory that it took millions of years to carve the canyon. I would be interested to see a scientific model of how a meandering river such as the Colorado could have possibly been responsible for carving out such a structure as the grand canyon over millions of years.

Actually I didn't know that rangers were told this. Do you have a link? There have been huge discoveries over the last few years which seem to refute the "millions of years" scenario. One being the flooding of the tuttle river, causing a "mini grand canyon" after only minutes of being clogged by millions of tons of soot and ash after mt. st.Helen's erupted.

blessings :)

Answer 10

I have been unable to confirm this report in my own enquiries among rangers and on the NPS website

The above comment in on the site you sent us to. Indicating that maybe this is not truly happening.

Maybe this is only Atheist terrorism in action!

Answer 11

Wow. Well, as the proud owner of a degree in Geology/Geography, I can assure you that the grand canyon was not caused by any "great flood"...