PEER have added some clarification over their pre-Christmas release about creationist literature at the NPS bookshops at the Grand Canyon. I interpreted it this way, but their loose wording caused a furor about NPS staff not being able to give the age of the GC. It turns out this was not true.
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Update on the Grand Canyon affair
Category: Creationism • General Science • Philosophy of Science
Posted on: January 22, 2007 9:51 PM, by John S. Wilkins
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