Should the National Trust give equal weight to the view that the Irish giant, Finn McCool, built the Giants Causeway...

[sandyRoe]

...in order to get across to Scotland to give another giant there a cuff round the ear?
That's as valid a view as the Creationist nonsense which is currently on display at the Causeway Visitor Centre.
http://www.guardian.c...auseway?newsfeed=true

[boxtops]

If they did, they'd have to acknowledge that the Devil's Dyke in Sussex is allegedly built by the Devil while he was trying to flood the area - his last shovelful of earth made the Isle of Wight.

[emmie]

The National trust should keep out of the God Debate and concentrate on looking after the land. It's a patent nonsense, and for heavens why would they weigh in with this

[boxtops]

Unless they post all the legends about all their sites on all their noticeboards, then yes em, I agree.

[sunny-dave]

Well if they don't get that changed pretty quickly they can whistle for my subscription at renewal time ...

[emmie]

I thought of becoming a member a number of times, but consider if they come up with this, money wasted.

[boxtops]

We used to belong but we let our subscriptions lapse, it just got too expensive (nothing to do with ethics!) - and there's not much NT land round here, mostly English Heritage, so we didn't get vfm from visiting local locations.

[Old_Geezer]

I don't see a problem referring to myths and legends related to a location when offering informaion about it. It's all interesting and anyone with more than an IQ point to rub together isn't going to take it seriously.

[naomi24]

Since the National Trust say this ….

// "The National Trust fully supports the scientific explanation for the creation of the stones 60 million years ago.//….

….I would like to see what they’re actually saying about the Creationist theory, because it doesn’t appear to me that they’re actually promoting it – and I can’t see anything wrong with including references to legends in their blurbs. I suspect this article is making something out of nothing.

[AB Editor]

I certainly wouldn't mind the national trust sharing local myths on their notice boards. Can't see what the problem would be?

If anyone wanted a fat book on the subject of local myth, this is the one: Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

[Duncer]

As naomi24 points out, a complete non-story.

[woofgang]

I hate links to Amazon, they make me spend money :-)