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Boing Boing: Grand Canyon bookstore still selling Creationist myth

Unbelievable. BoingBoing reported years ago that the official bookstore at the Grand Canyon was selling a book that claimed that it was the result of Noah's flood and was therefore explicable in a fundamentalist, Bible-based world-view.

I once had the distinct displeasure of arguing with someone who actually believed this kind of thing; the sciences of geology and stratigraphy were dismissed as some sort of side-effect of the first day of Creation. All the embedded fossils were held to be tricks of the Devil, meant to distract us from the Biblical truth. Continental drift, same thing. Ancient rocks that were chemically identical, found on either side of the Atlantic in Africa and South America meant nothing and had no logical connection.

The argument, as it happens, took place over New Year's Eve at a friend's house in Washington state. I still find it shocking that someone I know to be intelligent and logical could believe that  "the world was created in 6 days" for real.

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