Yesterday I went fossil hunting. After spending Canada Day in Canada, my family and I came back via upstate New York, where two days ago my son and I happened across a crinoid (sea lilly) and a coral<\/a> fossil on the beach. This led to us spending some time yesterday at Penn Dixie Paleontological and Outdoor Education Center<\/a>. An abandoned shale quarry, the place doesn\u2019t look like much (a somewhat barren area with piles of rocks and a small booth), but once you start picking up rocks it becomes clear that this site is an incredible treasure trove of fossils. One doesn\u2019t even have to actually dig in order to find things. My son found several trilobite<\/a> fossils \u2013 I mostly found gastropods<\/a>, and there were fragments of crinoids all over the place. To visit this former sea bed and examine fossils that are 380 million years old and try to explain them in terms of young-earth creationism <\/a>is dishonest and deceptive, playing on public lack of understanding of science and our desire for emotional fulfillment to distract attention from evidence that is everywhere around us<\/a>. Flood Geology <\/a>doesn\u2019t fit these shale beds from the Buffalo, New York area \u2013 or any others for that matter. Layers upon layers of living things were here over the course of long periods of time, living<\/em> underwater and not just buried in a brief cataclysm. One can desperately try to make the evidence seem to point in a different direction, but mainstream science provides the explanations that are the best fit to the evidence.<\/p>\n
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