But why did I choose this picture?
Reason 42,977,354 why science rules and Creationists who vote need to be shot en masse into the sun.
From LiveScience.com via Yahoo News:
Cave Near Chicago Full of Ancient Wonders
Corey Binns
Special to LiveScience
LiveScience.com Fri May 18, 6:30 PM ET
North America's oldest conifer tree and some ancient scorpion parts are among the fossil treasures found in a newly discovered cave in Illinois.
The new discovery also unearthed fossils of plants that may be new to science and revealed evidence of prehistoric forest fires.
Scientists date the specimens to nearly 315 million years ago, according to initial findings presented last month at the regional meeting of the Geological Society of America in Lawrence, Kan.
"I've never seen anything like this before," said Roy Plotnick, a paleontologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago who discovered the cave with students on a field trip to a site two hours outside of Chicago. "The limestone that forms the cave is 450 million years old, but that's not the interesting part of the cave. The preservation inside the cave is what's fascinating."
What is of interest to Plotnick and his colleagues are the well-preserved bits of plants and insects that have been cushioned in the cave and protected from the elements.
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Plotnick's cave is one of two recent sightings of ancient plants in Illinois. A coal mine near Danville, detailed in the May issue of the journal Geology, houses a 300-million-year-old fossilized forest. While the mine is filled with evidence of ancient wetlands, the cave also holds biological deposits from dryer environments that appear to be about 3 million years older than the plant fossils found in the mine.
"Their discovery, and ours, show how much there still is to find in supposedly well-known places like Illinois," Plotnick told LiveScience.
Rumors that the fossilized remains of a viable Two Party system in Chicago were also discovered in the cave are, as yet, unconfirmed.
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"Rumors that the fossilized remains of a viable Two Party system in Chicago were also discovered in the cave are, as yet, unconfirmed."
har, har, har!!!
Let's see, how will the typical creationist respond...
"Oh, god put that stuff there to test our faith..."
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Rumors that the fossilized remains of a viable Two Party system in Chicago were also discovered in the cave are, as yet, unconfirmed.
What do you mean? There IS a two party system in Chicago -- anti-labor Democrats & pro-labor Democrats. It's just that they keep switching sides so it's hard to tell who's who.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3194/chicago_unions_flex_political_muscle/
Is that is young frizzed-out Bogie in the photo? Hard to tell. He looks about the right height.
Betty Davis on the left, I think.
Sorry, what were we talking about....?
chautauqua,
A still from "The Petrified Forest".
Ah, now I get the whole extended metaphor. Good one. IMDB says that Bogie's character, Duke Mantee, was reportedly based on John Dillinger. It was so much easier when the bad guys pulled out guns because the law would eventually come down on them like a ton of bricks. Now the bad guys wear suits and kill untold thousands with a pen. And retire to a life of ease.
P.S. I thought that looked like Leslie Howard!
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