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Washington, DC — Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising a prompt review of its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood rather than by geologic forces, more than three years later no review has ever been done and the book remains on sale at the park, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). PEER

Oh god FSM, the humanity.

“In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.” Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP keynote address

Dictionary.com‘s Word of the day is neat. I’m always looking to improve my language skills, and a random semi-difficult word a day arriving in my mailbox is an excellent way to improve your volacu… vobacu… vocalu… word supply.

I read an interesting story on Kuro5hin titled The Man Who Invented God. It basically says that Zarathushtra was the guy who invented the “modern” perception of God, and his view of anthropomorphic forms of good and evil that eventually evolved into the biblical Heaven and Hell.

I’m not religious, but I find religion interesting to read about. I might even study a few points of religion history some time.