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ZNPaaneah · 12-22-2016, 04:12 AM

In my first full year as a Geology major in college we went on a field trip where we were told we would be hunting for fossils. I dreaded this trip. I had tried to find fossils before and had been unable. I could visualize the other students all finding fossils and I would be the only one who couldn't, I'd be exposed as not having the right skill set, and I'd be looking for a new major.

When we arrived it was a river bank with a kind of rocky beach. The instructor let us go and told us to look for fossils. I decided to look busy, I looked at my shoes, bent down, picked up a rock, and then to my surprise saw that it was a fossil. In fact every single rock on that beach was a fossil. That was when I learned that the skill set of a geologist is not in finding fossils, but in knowing where to look.

The precious stones are the same. Each one has an environment in which they are formed. If you know the environment you know where to look. This is why some people can despair that there is not a single righteous person and that they alone are left (Elijah speaking to God). This is not true, the problem is they just don't know where to look.

12-22-2016, 04:12 AM	#5
ZNPaaneah Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 7,105	Re: Precious stones -- Environment of formation In my first full year as a Geology major in college we went on a field trip where we were told we would be hunting for fossils. I dreaded this trip. I had tried to find fossils before and had been unable. I could visualize the other students all finding fossils and I would be the only one who couldn't, I'd be exposed as not having the right skill set, and I'd be looking for a new major. When we arrived it was a river bank with a kind of rocky beach. The instructor let us go and told us to look for fossils. I decided to look busy, I looked at my shoes, bent down, picked up a rock, and then to my surprise saw that it was a fossil. In fact every single rock on that beach was a fossil. That was when I learned that the skill set of a geologist is not in finding fossils, but in knowing where to look. The precious stones are the same. Each one has an environment in which they are formed. If you know the environment you know where to look. This is why some people can despair that there is not a single righteous person and that they alone are left (Elijah speaking to God). This is not true, the problem is they just don't know where to look.