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U.S. National Park Service Reverses Itself to Allow Creation Scientist's Grand Canyon Study"It's one thing to debate the science, but to deny access to the data not based on the quality of a proposal or the nature of the inquiry, but on what you might do with it is an abuse of government power," said Gary McCaleb, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom.
His 2013 formal request to conduct scientific research was summarily denied by the Park Service last year. Dr. Peter Huntoon of the University of Wyoming said Snelling's proposal was "inappropriate," describing it as "dead-endcreationist material," the Christian News Network reported. What are the Park Service administrators afraid he might discover? The arbitrary obstruction of a scientist because of his worldview seemed discriminatory. Snelling sued in May and won a reversal this month, thanks in part to President Trump's executive order expanding religious freedom.
Snelling is an Australian who received his geology doctorate in 1982 from Sydney University in his native city. Initially, he worked with (the) Koongarra uranium deposit in Australia's Northern Territory and contracted for mining industries that allowed him time to travel and study different geological strata. In 1998, Snelling joined the Creation Science Foundation. Since 2007, he has worked for Kentucky-based Answers in Genesis, a group of scientists who adhere to the literal Biblical account of creation instead of the evolutionary model, according to Science, the publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Snelling is the current director of research for Answers in Genesis.
Dr Gilles Brocard, a fellow Sydney University geologist argues that nuclear analysis dates some rocks from the Grand Canyon to 2 billion years old. He said the Earth is shown by studies to date at 4.5 billion, according to the Guardian. But Snelling is sticking to his guns. "The Australian Aborigines have stories about a great flood. You find similar stories in China," he said. "It's all circumstantial, but I believe the Bible is a record given to us by God and what I read in the Bible really occurred"... Continue reading here. 
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"It's one thing to debate the science, but to deny access to the data not based on the quality of a proposal or the nature of the inquiry, but on what you might do with it is an abuse of government power," said Gary McCaleb, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, the conservative Christian legal defense group that represented Dr. Snelling, according to the New York Times.
Snelling has led people on more than 30 river trips in the Grand Canyon and was known to park personnel for undermining their narrative of the geological formation of the park. For years, geologists stated the Grand Canyon was 20 million years old, only to recently revise its age to 5 million. Snelling and other young earth scientists believe Earth's age to be around 20,000 years, and the Grand Canyon, around 10,000 years. (Photo: Dr. Andrew Snelling/via God Reports)
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