Comments on: in 10 million years, we’re all in trouble https://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/ fundamentalism by blunt instrument Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:21:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: David Barnhart https://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-7800 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:21:10 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/#comment-7800 Allen may be joking, but if you visit the Devil’s Tower visitor’s center, you can indeed read the Indian legend of a bear climbing the tower and leaving marks on it.

Check these links for various Indian stories/legends of Devil’s Tower:

http://www.scienceviews.com/parks/devilstowerlegends.html

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Devils_Tower_National_Monument

http://www.devilstower.net/legend.html

The third one shows a picture very similar to the one I remember seeing at Devil’s Tower.

]]> By: Brian Ernsberger https://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-7799 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:55:48 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/#comment-7799 I’m with you Lou, we all know that Hollywood would NEVER not present the truth.

]]> By: Lou Martuneac https://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-7795 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:01:22 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/#comment-7795 “That is why there are claw marks all up and down the tower.”

C’mon Allen! That’s silly. Aliens did it. I saw Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind. ;-)

LM

]]> By: Allen https://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-7792 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:38:21 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/#comment-7792 Yes. I am joking. It was a fun trip to see it.

]]> By: ox https://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-7780 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:40:57 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/#comment-7780 In reply to David Barnhart.

@Allen… you’re joking, right?

@Dave

There are many fantastic sights out west. We have stopped at Rushmore and at the Little Big Horn (conveniently located right off the Interstate!) and of course Wall Drug. All of it very fascinating stuff. We are going to have to make a point of stopping at this one one of these days.

Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

]]> By: David Barnhart https://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-7777 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:07:47 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/#comment-7777 Definitely worth visiting. My wife and I took the time to go over there on a trip to the SW corner of South Dakota to see some of the various sights around that area. We ended up spending pretty much a whole day there, hiking around the base, just enjoying the views and remarking on the several views of how it was formed being just another indicator that scientists may try a lot of speculation, but have no really good explanation for how it came to be, how old it supposedly is, etc.

What’s really fascinating when you get up close (or see good closeup pictures of it), you can see that all the columns that form the structure are very geometric. Mostly 6-sided, but also 5, 7, and probably some others as well. You might expect that if you are a geologist, or you think about the rock being crystalline, but it really sinks home when you see it up close.

]]> By: Allen https://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-7775 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:02:34 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2011/01/19/in-10-million-years-were-all-in-trouble/#comment-7775 That article is wrong. On a visit to the site, I saw a Native American depiction of a giant bear trying to get after a man on top of the tower. That is why there are claw marks all up and down the tower. I just thought you should know the truth.

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