by Roger Ager
I do love the Badlands. I could not live there, but I do love to visit them. Well, maybe I could live there if I had to. I like the change after travel through miles of farm and range land. The smell of sage, the guttural growl of a buffalo herd, jack rabbits, mule deer, coyote packs that howl you to sleep at a campsite, first to the north, then to the west, then south. The muddy off colored streams made the badlands in the first place. I walk along picking up rocks on the shore, agate, flint, and petrified wood. Sometimes old bones are exposed on a high and dry cut bank. Like a calendar of geological, climactic and biological events, the raw hillsides tell us a story in living color, layer upon layer. How can some people deny evolution? They must have never come to the Badlands. The bible says the earth was created in 7 days. Could one of those days have been 10 million or maybe 100 million years? I think the earth is still being created/evolving. We are probably in about the 2nd or 3rd year. Creationists are knuckle heads. I do love the Badlands.
Roger Ager
9-8-00