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

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sandyRoe | 07:11 Fri 06th Jul 2012 | ChatterBank
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...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.
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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.
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
Unless they post all the legends about all their sites on all their noticeboards, then yes em, I agree.
Well if they don't get that changed pretty quickly they can whistle for my subscription at renewal time ...
I thought of becoming a member a number of times, but consider if they come up with this, money wasted.
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.
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.
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.
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
As naomi24 points out, a complete non-story.
I hate links to Amazon, they make me spend money :-)

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