November 20, 2004
Faith-Based Parks?
Creationists Meet the Grand Canyon
In National Park Service (NPS) affiliated bookstores, they can find literature informing them that the great chasm runs for 277 miles along the bed of the Colorado River. It descends more than a mile into the earth, and along one stretch, is some 18 miles wide, its walls displaying impressive layers of limestone, sandstone, shale, schist and granite.
And, oh yes, it was formed about 4,500 years ago, a direct consequence of Noah’s Flood. How’s that? Yes, this is the ill-informed premise of "Grand Canyon: A Different View" a handsomely-illustrated volume also on sale at the bookstores. It includes the writings of creationists and creation scientists and was compiled by Tom Vail, who with his wife operates Canyon Ministries...
article [Time Magazine] thanks, Devin
~There's nothing new here with Christers pushing their god-given ideas onto unsuspecting tourists in National Parks. Didn't Hanna-Barbera open that door in the 1960's with a nationally syndicated tv Yogi at Jellystone Park?
