--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > This would be funny if it wasn't so scary > > > > http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=801 > > Yup. My friends who are rangers there told me > about this. Pretty fascinating, isn't it? > > It's even a little relevant to FFL because of > the naming scheme that was used to define the > different geological stata that make up the > canyon. They are named for different gods and > goddesses and figures from Earth's mythologies. > The later stata and formations, geologically, > are named from Western myths. So you've got > things named after Jupiter and Venus and Apollo > and Thor, and a couple of others called Isis > Temple and Cheops Pyramid. Then, for some of > the older stata they decided to get Biblical, > so you get names like Solomon's Temple and > Sheba's Temple. > > But for the oldest strata they went to Eastern > myths. So you get Brahma's Temple and Krishna's > Shrine and Buddha's Cloister and Rama's Shrine. > > Give the fundamentalists enough time and all of > these strata and formations will have been > renamed after Noah and his kids. :-) >
I always liked the way scientists name stars etc. after the ancient myths, I didn't know about the GC though. Would love to see it someday, Ihear it,s over a mile to the bottom, I could take my mountain bike and have a scream! On a similar note the IMAX cinema at Londons science museum refused to show a film about evolution because sponsors (fundy christians) objected. We've got to stop these people before they drag us back to the stone- age.
