Same River, Different Planets

Today's New York Times has a fascinating article on two raft trips through the Grand canyon. One trip was organized by Tom Vail, a young-Earth creationist, who showed his raftload of true believers what he says is evidence that the planet is only 6000 years old and the Grand Canyon was formed by the great flood of the Bible. The other was organized by the National Center for Science Education, it consists of scientists and teachers, most of them non-believers, who are shown how the Grand Canyon actually supports a quite different scenario. It's somewhat frightening that two groups of people can see the same thing and come to such completely different conclusions about it. Sheds a little bit of light on the Scopes II proceedings.