Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth 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 Article-I.D.: sphinx.1137 Posted: Tue Sep 24 17:55:11 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Sep-85 06:34:42 EDT References: <390@imsvax.UUCP>, <728@psivax.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 24 [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*? = -- --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)