Re: Fossils for Sale? Read before you Flame me!

[Joseph Hall <halljd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Roger Fry has a point, but I would only like to dream of a day when
our natural history is not up for sale to the highest bidder and is
shipped to some place thousands of miles away, or when midnight
maruaders take the risk of getting shot by excavating on public lands or
parks, all for the sake of the almighty currency.  I would also like to
dream of the day that before an important, rare, or fascinating fossil
is removed from the area where it was discovered, local scientists and
children in schools get to learn from it.

    We must also count our blessings in that these "ameteurs," as we
call them at least acknowledge science, instead of blindly and
ignorantly denying the hard and methodical work of science in general
and paleontology in specific.  Much as the modern creationists like
"Dr." Carl Baugh.
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Joseph Hall
Research Student of Paleontology/Geology
OKAMP-SMETE Scholar
Oklahoma State University
"Even the smallest of prayers whispered in the most violent of storms is
heard by God." -Joseph Hall
"Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day." -Harry S. Truman
"Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes."
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