Coal

[mynewplace]

For some reason THIS ARTICLE makes me incredibly sad.  I guess it just makes me wonder what we've missed while we've been mining all this time.  I'm glad they found these magnificent specimens, but it puts a sort of longing in me, to see not only the fossils but to see what was actually growing there - the magnificent forest that existed beforehand.  You know, the lamest explanation I ever heard for fossilization was during a Sunday School class when I was in my early teens "God created an adult man and woman, what's to say he didn't create an "old" world?"  Fundamentalist Christians just couldn't explain away the existance of fossils and dinosaurs. Nor could they explain the difference in time lines.  At least not well enough to suit me.