and groups like the National Geographic Society, the Woods Hole Research
Center and Cambridge University
couldn't possibly know what they're talking about could they?
While Greepeace and PEER are the fringe nutjobs... there's science behind
their rantings.
Whether or not the National Park Service sells a book about the Grand
Canyon be caused by a great flood is irrelevant.
The research doesn't have to be adjusted to fit, the Biblical "account"
does.
Don't even get me started on the whackos in PETA...
Scott A. Stewart
REAC/PASS-IT
(202)-475-8875
"Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
01/05/2007 10:32 AM
Please respond to cf-community
To: CF-Community <[email protected]>
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Subject: RE: Gotta love the fundies...
This is the stuff that upsets me. Groups like PEER, PETA, and other
organizations that quote their directors as scientific experts on whatever
they are talking about.
They put this out and people just believe it because some guy with the
title
of executive director said so. Just a bunch of crap and people will
believe
it.
Just like groups that say paper and lumber companies are killing forests,
the same paper and lumber companies that have tree farms that they get
their
raw materials from.
There is a large amount of this environmentalists crap that is just fear
mongering, and they have been doing it for far longer than anybody else.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:25 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Gotta love the fundies...
>
> Great point.
>
> I thought this thread would get a little more discussion.
>
> There are a number of intersting threads that this article stirred in
> my
> mind:
> Dozens of bloggers running with a story with very little meat on the
> bones.
> Sites that write articles and press releases with obvious falsehoods or
> exagerations with no apology, even when caught.
> The fear of the Bush administration's penchant for warping science in
> the
> name of religion (or else there would be no there there).
> The moment when a fairly respected advocacy group steps over a line
> from
> rationality to insanity.
> The role of religion in the public square.
>
> Now usually, these types of half truths and exagerations are done on
> the
> right side of the political spectrum, where they are considered "fair
> and
> balanced". I just wanted to see how we would react to one from the
> left.
>
> I don't think anyone posted this link (from the official grand canyon
> website of the nps).
> http://www.nps.gov/grca/faqs.htm#old
>
>
> For my take, I have no problem with this book being available in the
> gift
> shop. I do want a review of the decision to make it avialable as
> promised
> (more to fulfill the promise than what will come out of it. If they say
> they
> are going to do something, then just do it). If the Administration in
> any
> way pressed for "no comment" on the age, it should be followed up and
> reported on.
>
>
> On 1/5/07, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > True....I mean, I would've been pissed if I'd have gone to loch ness
> > and couldn't find a book about Nessie just because there's no
> > scientific fact behind it.
> >
> > and I don't think my girls would've been near as happy with a stuffed
> > scientist doll. "Look sweetie, when you pull the cord he says '"Zeer
> > eez no scienteefeek eveedence uv ze look nuss moonster' "
> >
> >
>
>
>
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