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Summary: Outrageous
Review: H.B. Estabrooks from the progressive state of Tennessee writes:"Why all the hatred and derision? If this author's view of the origins of the canyon are wrong/false, then why do those who disagree with him get so upset? Wouldn't the author's error be evident?" We do not hate the book or its author. hate is a very strong word. Hate is what makes someone become a terrorist. We support the publishing of any book. But what is outrageous is the fact that this book is being sold at gift shops run by the US Park Service. It seems that under G.W. Bush, gently pushing creationism is a convenient way to appease the fundamentalist Christian right-wing. That's what we're upset about. The written word should always be free to express whatever the author wants. But the US Government should not be allowed to seel what is essentially Christian propaganda. End of story.
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Summary: laugh out loud funny
Review: I bought this book for my father, a respected geologist who spent much of his youth rafting on the Colorado. I hope that it gives him as many laughs as it has given me. This book is nothing more than a joke for anyone familiar with the scientific method.
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Summary: This is one of the few books the US President might read
Review: I can imagne many of the authors of this booktyping their essays on their computers while at 30,000 in a 767, perhaps taking a high blood pressure pill,or more aptly an anti-alzeihmer's pill (one tip, it's too late). Interesting which things of science are acceptable and which are not. The "maroons" to quote Bugs Bunny, who wrote this stuff seem to think that the scientifio method is suppose to perfectly explain the world. In fact, science is a modeling of the world, the best we can do is to predict and/or intervene up to a point , there are many lacunae and false leads. The main problem with this book is that the reasoning is the worst kind of Monty Python and the Holy Grail "she's a witch" argumentation. If a particular geologic feature is hard to explain, the obvious default for this crew is "it was a bibilical flood that covered the earth under at least 20 cubits or some such measure, of water" Any descrepencie or ambiguities are easily explained by this grand theory. This is obviously absurd on its face. Where did god get so much water, and where did it go? No one, not even god has a squirt gun that big. Also, these hard working authors seem to have a bit of a trouble with radio carbon dating and other such techniques accepted by most of the world's scientific community as being useful. The use of the "big flood" to explain everything is not only silly, but is not very useful, scientifically-- what has been successfully predicted as a result of this "flood" paradigm in the real world? It is a reactive position that seeks to completely explain the world by essentially saying, "its too hard to figure this out, so let's just say God did it."
This would be funny except for the small problem that about 50 percent of the US population believes in the literal truth of biblical creation. Be afraid, be very afraid.
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Summary: More Creationist Drivel
Review: I just don't get it. How can anybody with even a middle school education believe this crap? To anybody who thinks that a global flood ever happened, two questions. First, where did all the water go? To flood the Earth to the depth stated in Genesis would require over three times the amount of water currently held in the oceans, freshwater sources, atmosphere, ice caps, and underground sources COMBINED. Second question, ever seen a coral reef? Corals cannot survive outside very specific ranges of salinity, visibility, and temperature; a global flood would have drastically altered all of these, killing off every coral on the planet. But the coral survived... gee, guess science might have been on to something after all when the flood story got flushed down the toilet two centuries ago. If you enjoyed the book, enjoy the bubble you're living in, just don't try to inflict your dogma on the rest of us.
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Summary: Hey James Randi
Review: I'll give ya 1 million to prove their is no God.
Can't do it can ya? Didn't think so.
Point is all you people who worship science as fact are just
as bad as any Christian fundamentalist, so STFU
Thanks!
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Summary: Absolutely Hilarious a must buy!!!
Review: I've got to say this is one of the funniest books I have ever read, I would recommend it to anyone. Its very rare to find a book that will make you double over in public with laughter without feeling self conscious. Well listen up, cos this book does that and more!
Along with the hilarious text there are some cracking photos of the grand canyon, which incidently helped to calm me down before reading on and hurting myself due to the inevitable explosion of giggles. I'm not joking when I say the author is a comic genious and master of farce. Join the psuedo science adventure as our fictional hero, a wacky fellow named "God", retardedly hurls unimaginable amounts of water around the world, creating an astounding localised geological feature!! Can I hire this guy to landscape my garden or what???
A must buy. This book is so funny it would have that bloke Jesus giggling and thumping his fists, like a member of the monkey family he evolved from.
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Summary: proof
Review: If you want beautiful pictues of the grand canyon, buy this book. If you want science, don't.
It has been said earlier that he will give out $1,000,000 to anyone who can prove there is no god.
What a ridiculous concept, you do not form a hypothesis, and then see if it can be proved wrong. You form a hypothesis, then see if it can be proved correct!
I could write a book saying earth was created by the[...]of some giant blue monkeys. I'll give $1,000,000 to anyone who can prove it wasn't.
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Summary: The Beautiful Truth
Review: If you want to know the truth about this incredibly beautiful natural phenomenon, and its cataclysmic formation, read this book! In spite of the chinese-water-toture dripping of the evolutionists' endless drivel, most thinking people can observe and understand that this overwhelming canyon was carved out by massive flows of water. The bookstores at the Grand Canyon can't keep it in stock. It sells out too fast. SDG
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Summary: Religious Idiots
Review: In this day and age, isn't it amazing how these religious idiots bend the truth to match their beliefs? Folks, the Bible is fiction. It is not science. Ideas in science only become accepted after they have survived the test of experimentation and repeated proof.
Although I do pity religious types who believe the Bible describes fact, I sincerely pity their children. I have met adults who were spoon fed this kind of creationist crap. They grow up to be idiots. What a joke.
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Summary: A complete outrage
Review: In yet another assault upon the collective intelligence of the American people, the Bush administration has sanctioned this idiotic and insulting book. In addition, they have coerced the National Park Service into offering this travesty for sale in the official Grand Canyon bookshop. Creationism and not Darwinism is the battle cry for Dubya (not that he's ever heard of the Scopes trial). Now Bush and his cronies claim (apparently with a straight face), that Noah's Ark carved the Grand Canyon, that creationism is the explanation for this great wonder of our country. Geology, erosion, and the presence of the Colorado River had "nothing to do with the creaion of the canyon." Excuse me?? As someone who has visited the Grand Canyon hundreds of times, who has hiked it Rim to Rim 20 times, studied it all my life, this constitutes one of the greater insults known to mortal man. It's just another vile attempt by George Bush to rape this country and exploit it for his greedy, fat-cat oil friends. Let's just tattoo the words 'Halliburton' on the roof of Phantom Ranch. On my last visit to the Canyon a few months ago, I was standing at dawn at the beginning of the North Kaibab trail. Another hiker marveled at the sublime beauty and said, "Bush would probably like to drill for oil down there." He meant it as a joke, but the sickening fact is, it's almost certainly true. This is an abysmal book, insulting, degrading and utimately the most obtuse examination of the Grand Canyon ever created. Avoid this infantile pabulum like arsenic.
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