Glass House sign affects the way people look at the world

For a panoramic view of the Glass House Mountains, north of Brisbane, the lookout on the escarpment of the Beerburrum State Forest is hard to beat. Quality interpretive signs by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Services tell tourists what they are looking at. Those who made the signs as well as those who read them would not be aware of the subtle bias they present, and how they affect people’s perception of the world. Consider this extract:

The Glass House Mountains were once lava plugs within volcanic cones. The volcanic cones and surrounding Landsborough sandstone were eroded by wind and water over 25 million years to reveal the lava plugs which you can see today.

This is an anti-biblical perspective, which of course is the dominating philosophy in geological circles today.

The following wording would present the same information without a bias:

The Glass House Mountains were once lava plugs within volcanic cones. Subsequent geologic processes have removed material from the volcanic cones and surrounding Landsborough sandstone to reveal the lava plugs which you can see today.

Biblical history records what really happened in the past, so we should say something like this:

The Glass House Mountains were once lava plugs within volcanic cones erupted about half-way through Noah’s Flood about 4,500 years ago. The volcanic cones and surrounding Landsborough sandstone were eroded as the floodwaters receded into the ocean, revealing the lava plugs which you can see today. Not much erosion has happened since then.

Now, that would change the way people look at the landscapes, wouldn’t it?

For more detail see The Glass House Mountains.