Andrew Kaduk at Just for the Record has an inspired rant on the subject of religious wingnuttery, its collision with science, and our government’s inane reaction thereto. Specifically, what has ignited his ire is a decision that the National Park Service had to offer a book for sale that states, as non-fiction, that the Grand Canyon was created on a “Biblical time scale,” as opposed to the millions of years it actually took for water to carve it out. The book Grand Canyon: A Different View asserts that the the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood.
Says Mr. Kaduk:
I am sick, and I am tired, and I am sick and tired. I’m tired of this elephant sitting in each and every room as we try to discuss the problems of the day. Yes, you friggin’ goofballs, you have the right in this country to believe anything that you want. You want to believe that the Earth is a big floating ball of magical putty that “God” bends and shapes at his will? OK. I, however, have the right to expect that my government has the right to be objective and scientifically honest with respect to matters such as the formation of the Grand Canyon or the formation of this planet.
He has better bits in there, but this is a family friendly blog, so I won’t reproduce some of his more colorful passages.