Is it true park rangers at the Grand Canyon can't tell tourists it's real age so they don't offend anyone?

Question

By 'anyone' I mean people who think the the GC was made in just a matter of minutes only a few thousand years ago. You know, morons.

Answer 1

You know even if you believe that God made the world you don't necessarily believe it was made within minutes. I do respect your opinion though.

I have seen the Grand Canyon numerous times and never heard that so thank you for teaching me something new. That sounds kind of silly though. We are so afraid of offending people now a days.

Listen we are very diverse nation with many different opinions. It is going to be impossible to not offend someone sometime. Heck maybe the people that want to know a round about age are offended because the park rangers won't tell them.

Answer 2

No, it is not true.  When I was last at the GC, the ranger told me it was 6,000,005 years old.  She knew that because when she started working there, she was told it was 6 million years old, and that was 5 years ago.

The National Park Service has a web page that talks about the age of the GC.

This "myth" about the what the park rangers can and can not say got started because a book store at the GC started selling a Christian Creationism book that said the GC was only 6000 years old.

Answer 3

Evidently it is true.  Supposedly that practice is followed so as not to offend anyone who believes in Creationism.

See:

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=8861

Answer 4

It wouldn't surprise me.

If anyone objected to its real age maybe the park rangers could point out to them the remnants of ancient caves in the Redwall limestone layer deep in the canyon.