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Park Service Sticks With Biblical Explanation For Grand Canyon:
"The Bush Administration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood rather than by geologic forces, according to internal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)"

The Grand Canyon, ok, I can grasp that. A geological formation.

And it was created by Noah's Flood. Ok, my mind is trying to connect the two. Just drag this a little over to the left, and... nope.

This is insanity. It is pure, total, insanity. Furthermore, there is no way to deny that it is insanity. There is no fair and balanced on this one, guys. There is scientific fact, and there is superstitious hocus-pocus, and those are the only two choices. That's the end of it.

And people want four more years of this. I wonder what god will have created by the end of four more years. [Shudder.]

This administration has gone TOO FAR in attempting to placate its base. Granted, its base is a bunch of rabidly religious holy rollers who believe what they're told. What other explanation can there be but their guillibility, that they swallow that conservatism now means record budget deficits, unilateral foreign policy, huge, more powerful government, and the invasion of privacy rights? The people who want Bush elected for the first time legitimately are willing to abnegate reason completely, and that is something that the left cannot hope to reproduce.

Karl Rove is the one that orchestrated this, by the way. The original dirty trickster himself, also known as the puppet master, saw a political opportunity and went for it. The machine is already in place for frightening people (churches), so it makes sense to all but the least suspicious people of all, the bible-thumpers. If somebody says magic words to these people, they jump. It's amazing! If I say that the liberals are a bunch of satanists, how does that make you feel? It makes you feel mothing, because it means nothing. But to the bible people, it does mean something! To these people, the value of words, repeated over and over, is more than the value of the truth! Makes me sick, sick, sick.

Also: I think the Noah's flood story, out of all the bible stories, is by far the most hilariously ridiculous.

posted by dale @ 9:33 AM