--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/9/07 8:20:13 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Yet you want to control the flow of information so they are > silenced. You > > are worse than they are. > > Not silenced, just moved to their proper place, religious book > shops are the place for this sort of thing not educational > establishments. > > Yes , that's what they did in the Soviet Union. Moved it to it's > *proper* place, basements, living rooms in private home etc.
Are Christian bookstores restricted to basements and living rooms in private homes? I never knew that. I thought they were right out in the street like any other bookstore. > Out of sight, out of mind. > Every view has a right to express it's self and do so in public. Except the National Park Service, it appears, where rangers are no longer permitted to honestly answer questions about the age of the canyon. You apparently never bothered to read the article. There's much more to this than whether the book can be sold in the bookstore at the canyon. Have a look and get back to us, OK? http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=801 > And the place you are referring to, if I'm not mistaken, is > a souvenir shop in the Grand Canyon, not an educational > institution. You're mistaken. From the article: Park officials have defended the decision to approve the sale of Grand Canyon: A Different View, claiming that park bookstores are like libraries, where the broadest range of views are displayed. In fact, however, both law and park policies make it clear that the park bookstores are more like schoolrooms rather than libraries. As such, materials are only to reflect the highest quality science and are supposed to closely support approved interpretive themes. Moreover, unlike a library the approval process is very selective. Records released to PEER show that during 2003, Grand Canyon officials rejected 22 books and other products for bookstore placement while approving only one new sale item the creationist book. > This is just an attempt by secularists to drive the predominate > religion underground Utter self-serving bullcrap. What percentage of U.S. citizens believe the world was created 6,000 years ago? > after which they will do the same to all the other religions and > belief systems that don't fit theirs. This is about not pretending religion is science, not about "driving religion underground." Nobody's suppressing the book; it's available in Christian and other bookstores and even on Amazon. The objection is to selling it in a bookstore devoted to science.
