re: #382 Charles Johnson

This creationist nut has been seeking a permit to collect rocks from Grand Canyon so he can prove that the Canyon is not as old as it is per radiocarbon dating and other scientific measures have indicated.

They’re allowing his permit, despite not including certain key bits of info on his application:

Snelling’s original research application did not mention his young-Earth creationist beliefs. Nor did it disclose his job as director of research at Answers in Genesis, the Ken Ham-led organization that runs the Creation Museum in Kentucky. But his religious beliefs did come up when the park sent his research application out to mainstream geologists for peer review.

Can’t wait for this nut’s “scientific” research to conclude that all the prior scientific research was wrong, and that it’s only a few thousand years old.

On the basis not not disclosing that info, I would have denied his application. But they’re allowing it - and enabling these creationist nuts to continue poisoning the minds of people who don’t know any better and worse, indoctrinating another generation of kids to believe this nonsense when the scientific consensus is that the canyon is at least 6 million years old, and parts could be more than 70 million years old. It certainly isn’t the 6,000 years old these creationists believe.