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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Extinction
Message-ID: <1137@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 17:55:11 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 17:55:11 1985
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[We're back up, we're back up!!!!!]

>[Ted Holden]
>     Immanuel Velikovsky  believed  that  most  of  the  elephants died
>in  a  castrophy  which  was  violent  enough  to actually have shifted
>major parts of  the  earth's  surface  with  respect  to  the  poles so
>that  some  of  the  elephants,  which  died  either  directly from the
>catastrophy  or  froze  to  death  shortly  thereafter,
>[...]
>As  long as these creatures were able to function, I can't
>truly believe that any  catastrophy, even  the flood,  could have wiped
>them all out;  the sky and mountaintops are pretty safe and a big eagle
>could live on fish for  a  long  time.

Wouldn't you think that someone who so rabidly propounds catastrophism
would learn how to spell catastroph*E*?
                                    =
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--JB        (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth)

"What if the after-effect of the terrible bomb is unusual beyond belief?
 Wouldn't you rather the whole population had listened to somebody like
    the old Indian chief?"   (The Roches)